Well, following the law to the letter can sometimes be as mad as not doing it.. ;)<div><br></div><div>This will be interesting, I think EFF will be on top of this one, they will have a field day!</div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>- Nicolas</div><div> PPI / PPSE</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Marco Confalonieri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marco.confalonieri@email.it">marco.confalonieri@email.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<a href="mailto:juca@members.fsf.org" target="_blank">juca@members.fsf.org</a> ha scritto:
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<h3><span><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/04/1918206/Woman-Filming-Sisters-Birthday-Party-Gets-Charged-With-Felony-Movie-Piracy" target="_blank">Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged
With Felony Movie Piracy</a> <span>on Friday December 04,
@04:55PM</span> <span></span></span> </h3>
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I sent this email to MUVICO:<br>
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Dear staff,<br>
<br>
It's clear from news like this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/04/new.moon.arrest/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/04/new.moon.arrest/</a><br>
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<i>"<b>(CNN)</b> -- A birthday celebration that culminated in a trip to
catch the blockbuster movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" could land
22-year-old Samantha Tumpach in prison for three years. </i>
<p><i>The
Chicago, Illinois-area woman captured three minutes of the film on her
videocamera while taping part of her sister's surprise party at a
Muvico theater in Rosemont. [...]"</i></p>
<br>
that the copyright war became a crusade.<br>
If you think that your terror campaign against videotaping can be
fought like this, go on. The only ones that will benefit from that will
be us, those who want to reform the copyright laws in a just way, with
a balance of rights between the producers and the consumers. A balance
that it's clear it's completely lost.<br>
<br>
(And, I regret to say, also any sense of decency is lost wih it)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
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Their answer:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">MUVICO’S
OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO CAMCORDING</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">INCIDENT AT
MUVICO ROSEMONT 18</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> The unauthorized video recording
of a
motion picture while it is being exhibited in a movie theater is
illegal under
federal law and under the laws of more than forty states, including the
State
of Illinois.
According to a study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of
America,
illegal film piracy costs the movie industry billions of dollars each
year, and
illegal camcording in movie theaters is the source of over 90% of all
illegally
copied movies in their initial release form. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> In order to combat the increasing
theft of
copyrighted films, the motion picture industry has encouraged theater
owners to
adopt a “zero-tolerance” policy prohibiting the video or audio
recording of any portion of a movie. Specifically, theater managers
are
instructed to alert law enforcement authorities whenever they suspect
illegal
activity. Theater managers have neither the expertise nor the
authority to
decide whether a crime has been committed. Law enforcement
professionals
determine what laws may have been broken and what enforcement action
should be
taken. It is then up to prosecutorial discretion to determine the
seriousness
of any charges that might be leveled.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> In our continuing effort to
educate our
guests about the illegality of film piracy, Muvico prominently places a
number
of posters and signs within its theaters alerting moviegoers of its
“zero-tolerance” policy with respect to the camcording of films in
its auditoriums. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">It is clear that they lost any common
sense with decency. Then they say that WE are the mad ones.<br>
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<div>-- <br>
Marco Confalonieri
ass.prom.soc. Partito Pirata (PP Italy)
<a href="http://www.partito-pirata.it" target="_blank">http://www.partito-pirata.it</a>
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