The Passion of the Illegal Camcorder

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/#film1

Tipped off by an audience member and a projectionist, police have arrested two men under California's new law barring use of a camcorder in a movie theater. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that one of the men, Min Jae Joun, was nabbed Saturday after someone spotted the red light from his camcorder during a screening of The Passion of the Christ.The other man, Ruben Centeno Moreno, was spotted by a projectionist scanning the audience with night-vision goggles. The arrests were the first to be carried out under a recently enacted California law making the use of a camcorder in a movie theater a misdemeanor.

I guess whoever was using the camcorder forgot their 10 Commandments: "Thou shalt not steal"

[asthmaticeog]

1. More like "thou shalt...

...stick a little piece of black electrical tape over thine 'record' light."

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2. "Thou shalt put tape over thy camcorders red light"

That type of pirated video is called a "cam".

http://www.vcdquality.com/faq.php#4

Usually they're of poor quality (oftentimes the heads of people in the audience block part of the picture).

[qb]

3. Projectionist scanning the audience with night-vision goggles? Yikes

I hope they don't show pornos at that theater.

[LynneSin]

4. oh my!!

:wow:

[Endangered Specie]

5. Shouldn't the message of Jesus be free?

[Fenris]

6. Theoretically, yes. Mel is making money off of the death of Jesus.

Enjoy your film! :)

[MisterP]

10. 200 mil smackers so far

does that include nail necklaces proceeds?
http://landoverbaptist.org/news0304/passionflyer.html

[Fenris]

11. This whole thing makes me ill

To think that all the Christians going to see this think that man is some kind of blessed figure. It is a low and vile thing that he has done. Making money off of the death of Jesus and then licensing products like a cross coffee mug and a nail pendant is equal to pissing on the New Testament to me. It's all very nauseating.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Merchandise is bad enough, but... NAILS???????

WTF? Even I, a total non-believer, got offended by that. And I don't get offended easily.

[damnraddem]

7. Ooh, have some fun.

Take a red light to your California theater. Turn it on and see if anyone comes. If they accost you, say: 'Oh, I dropped my keys and was using this noninstrusive light to search for them.'

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Nice

But copyright nazism doesn't tend to spread to Brazil too quickly, so I won't likely have a chance to use it. Good for Californians, though.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Well, since copyright violation isn't theft...

...anymore than running a red light is, I'd say, no, no Commandments broken.