Five year's jail for camcorders in cinema - Talk Root - PC Hardware, Software and Web Development forums

Pat · 11-14-2003, 09:14 AM

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33988.html

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Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn who announced the bill today, want to punish the use or an attempt to use a video recorder in a movie theatre with a custodial sentence. That's even if you have no made no attempt, nor even have any intent to publish your footage. Anyone caught doing so faces the same five year jail sentence, even if no infringement has taken place. A second offence raises the maximum term to ten years. The bill also proposes a scale of new fines, allowing the Motion Picture Association of America the same armory as the RIAA.

Is it me or are these retards coming out of the wood work? wheres my gun.........

Spencer · 11-14-2003, 10:34 AM

I guess it makes sense, but at the same time... ugh.

Pat · 11-14-2003, 10:49 AM

5 years for having a camera in a cinema, come on, you can get less years than that for killing a person, or rape, or armed robery, are you saying that filming a movie is worse than those crimes?

Spencer · 11-14-2003, 10:59 AM

No, I'm not saying that filming a movie is a worse crimes. However, I think it is important that people feel that there are consequences for their actions. Therefore if they are stealing copyright material my video recording it then they deserve a penalty for it. All I'm saying is that this will help deter crimes such as this.

TheProfessional · 12-29-2003, 10:01 PM

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With the Senate wrapping up for the year, it's unlikely to be passed. The former Mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein received $242,066 from the entertainment industry in her most recent Senate race, making her the pigopolists third favorite Senator, after Hillary

From the same article. Heh, money buys everything.

dduardo · 12-29-2003, 11:12 PM

I think a large fine (~$100k) would be more appropriate for the crime. 5 and 10 year sentences seem a bit harsh for a copyright violation. Anyway, most screeners that I find on the internet are from chinese descent, so it really isn't going to change anything.

12-31-2003, 11:17 AM

Well I suppose it 'sets an example' for other contries to follow, *AHEM* but it also seems to set the example that the value (Monetary value, that is) lost is worth that much of an 'ordinary' person's life....that's kinda sad...

sfod_d223 · 03-05-2007, 12:28 PM

Well since 2003 the advent of smaller more higher resolution cameras has made the pirating of movies still a lucrative and shady business to say the least.

Mesoc · 03-08-2007, 11:34 AM

going to jail for 5 years? Thats not right, theres way too many people out there that are doing bootleggers and get away with it for years. Maybe 90 days in jail and a large fine would work, but 5 years?thats a huge chunk of your life.

aquariancore · 03-08-2007, 08:35 PM

Be serious why would you happen to have a camcorder in the movies? I know for a fact most camcorder pirates tape during private screening that a friend sets up. That make the law superfluous because the industry is well aware.

Tangent210 · 03-10-2007, 12:06 AM

Jail is for violent criminals this is in no way violent. This is disgusting. Sure there won't be a crappy cam on the net because you arrested them but how many people have downloaded a cam and been "Oh this quality is good enough I won't rent it or go see it". Most people who see cams just want to see it before it's released to theaters or on DVD. For the price of keeping a person in jail for 1 year the government could send 2 kids full ride through college. So between the copyright infringers and the pot heads the government could make some huge advancement in it's education policies.

aquariancore · 03-10-2007, 02:27 PM

So what you're saying is don't send them to jail pay their college tuition?

sfod_d223 · 03-22-2007, 05:28 AM

Dianne Feinstein is still kicking cans around?

winker · 07-16-2008, 05:18 AM

Ohh.. I don't know what to say..but what i see in this bill is that it is a good step taken by the senator, I don't if everyone will embrace it..

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