nsane.forums Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 In 2008, the latest Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight’ became a massive hit, setting a one-day box office record of $66.4 million on its opening day and taking $996,500,000 by the end of the year.Of course, Warner worked hard to hinder piracy, even handing out night-vision goggles in Australia to thwart cammers. Over in the United States, however, much lower-tech means were used to identify an individual attempting to record the movie.The movie industry already had their eye on the East Glenn Movie Theater in Lee's Summit since they believed an illicit copy of the Will Smith movie ‘Hancock’ had previously been recorded there. After noticing a man wearing a long winter coat in the summer, on July 18 on-site MPAA investigators grew suspicious that he was up to no good.They confronted 42 year-old Robert L. Henderson, seized his video camera and called the police who arrived shortly later and arrested him. Henderson’s camera was found to contain footage of The Dark Knight, Hell Boy 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia "“ Prince Caspian. While conducting a search of his home, police found several computers and 1,240 counterfeit DVDs.On October 7th 2009, Henderson pleased guilty before U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan to criminal copyright infringement under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act 2005 – the same legislation that sent the EliteTorrents admins and uploaders to prison.Last week, Judge Gaitan ordered Henderson to serve 24 months in federal prison along with 3 years probation for recording the movie. In addition he must pay $24,738 in fines – $19.95 for each of the pirate movies seized from his home."The theft of films by camcording is a serious threat to the health of the motion picture industry and the 2.4 million Americans it employs," said Mike Robinson, Sr. Vice President of Content Protection at the MPAA. "This is an appropriate sentence for a very serious crime, and we hope it will serve as a warning to would-be movie thieves that they will face severe consequences for engaging in these activities."Despite all the efforts, The Dark Knight still leaked online in cam and other formats and went on to become the most-pirated movie of 2008 with 7,030,000 downloads on BitTorrent alone.The US is extremely tough on ‘cammers’ these days, an attitude which isn’t shared by the Australians. Recently an 88 year-old man who tried to record Avatar wasn’t arrested, but allowed to carry on watching the movie.Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 'The theft of films by camcording is a serious threat to the health of the motion picture industry and the 2.4 million Americans it employs.'Claiming something is good because it employs a lot of persons and claiming something is bad because it is a threat to this employment is rubbish. The same way Hitler could've claimed the people trying to stop him were bad, because he was good for employment...Hitler vanished the employment problems in Germany in the 1930's, does the motion picture industry claim Hitler was a good guy?Interviewers should ask that kind of questions, then maybe we can see some long-lost tears in some long-lost terrible interviews :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Not to mention most of the cammed movies i've seen are low grade, I'd rather see the movie in theater or wait for the DVD to leak. I don't see how they compete with the official product. Also, I've seen drug dealers and thieves get less punishment. The way I see it is that the law is too hard on piracy or not hard enough on everything else (and I doubt the latter because I've seen people get arrested for BS or get arrested even though they were clearly innocent.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 I rather wait for a DVDRiP ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 22, 2010 Administrator Share Posted February 22, 2010 Same here, I had downloaded a cam for a movie I would had loved to watch for a lifetime, but that cam quality killed it and I never feel to see that movie again. :(From that day, I ONLY go for DVDRips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mara- Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Well, I wait for BluRay rip. I can't stand DVDrip anymore, it looks so bad on my 20 inch screen. I really can't understand those who watch cam version. It's so bad quality. If you wish so much to watch it, go to cinema and enjoy the movie, and not to struggle your eyes with cam version.Cheers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 @mara-:Indeed. If they're itching to watch the movie, watch it in 3D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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