[blossom24]

Just read the following articles... just can't help feeling the laws on copyright are sinking deeper and deeper into a hole that we will never be able to climb out of.

First calling the police on a group of giggling 12 year old girls... then arresting somebody for having a camera in his possession, before even entering the cinema.

There was once a time where you had to pretty much commit the act before being arrested, now all you have to do is think it for the police to act on it.

http://torrentfreak.com/first-3d-camcord...al-150106/
https://torrentfreak.com/uk-cinema-calls...ns-141223/

What do you think?

[DJ_Izumi]

First calling the police on a group of giggling 12 year old girls...

This is pretty harsh and it's on the cinema itself for it's actions. They're clearly paying for it in the court of public opinion. However, these girls should be shot for turning on their mobile devices in the theater at all. I hate those people.

then arresting somebody for having a camera in his possession, before even entering the cinema.

This one however, I think you are mischaracterizing. You say he didn't enter the cinema, but the article says he didn't enter the screening room. Nothing in the article suggests he was arrested outside the cinema, he was arrested in BUILDING, just not in the actual screening room. This makes perfect sense though since cinema security typically does bag checks outside the screening rooms for obvious reasons of practicality. I mean REALLY, who brings two 3D cameras in a bag to the movies? It seems unlikely that he rented them for other purposes and then just brought them to the movies rather than store them in a safe location. Since he apparently rented the cameras for this purpose and he was getting paid for this.

Frankly, this is going to go one of two ways:

1) He totally had a legit use for the cameras and has contact info, contracts and other stuff that would explain that he REALLY needed to rent out two 3D cameras for the job and case dismissed.
2) He was going to cam the movie and the investigation will reveal contacts with those who would be paying him in exchange for this rather complicated operation of filming a 3D screening of a movie.

However you REALLY can't say that someone going into a cinema with TWO 3D cameras does not warrant reasonable suspicion of an intent to commit piracy that would lead to the pursuit of a criminal case.