MPAA & ICE Confirm They Interrogated A Guy For Wearing Google Glass During A Movie
from the insane dept
We wrote earlier about the guy who told the story of being pulled out of a theater in the middle of a movie for wearing Google Glass (turned off), which he wears all the time, because he got prescription lenses installed on the device and uses it as his regular pair of glasses. As we noted, there were some oddities in the original story, including references to the FBI and "The Movie Association," neither of which made sense. Since then, as we noted in our updated post, AMC confirmed that a customer had been detained, and since then the MPAA as well as Homeland Security have weighed in, confirming the basic story. This is insane on multiple levels, which we'll get to in a moment. But first, the quotes. Here's AMC:Movie theft is something we take very seriously, and our theater managers contact the Motion Picture Association of America anytime it’s suspected that someone may be illegally recording content on screen. While we’re huge fans of technology and innovation, wearing a device that has the capability to record video is not appropriate at the movie theatre. At AMC Easton 30 last weekend, a guest was questioned for possible movie theft after he was identified wearing a recording device during a film. The presence of this recording device prompted an investigation by the MPAA, which was on site. The MPAA then contacted Homeland Security, which oversees movie theft. The investigation determined the guest was not recording content.Then the MPAA:
Google Glass is an incredible innovation in the mobile sphere, and we have seen no proof that it is currently a significant threat that could result in content theft. The MPAA works closely with theaters all over the country to curb camcording and theater-originated piracy, and in this particular case, no such activity was discovered.Finally, Homeland Security's ICE division:
On Jan. 18, special agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and local authorities briefly interviewed a man suspected of using an electronic recording device to record a film at an AMC theater in Columbus. The man, who voluntarily answered questions, confirmed to authorities that the suspected recording device was also a pair of prescription eye glasses in which the recording function had been inactive. No further action was taken.Okay, now onto the point. As we said in the initial post, this certainly fit with the MPAA's insane "guidelines" to theaters and their "zero tolerance" policies towards anyone possibly recording anything. However, the involvement of ICE is particularly insane. We've been particularly critical of ICE and the group's over-aggressive campaign to seize websites based entirely on Hollywood's say so.
Even so, it seemed incredible that ICE would take direction from the MPAA on something as small as a guy in a movie theater, rushing to the theater to help with the interrogation of someone there, but we underestimated the willingness of ICE to say "how high" when the MPAA says "jump." Yes, we should know better by now, but we thought we'd actually give the MPAA and DHS the benefit of the doubt here. Our mistake.
We find it difficult to believe that there aren't more important things for ICE to be doing than hassling a guy out attending a movie with his wife. Hollywood has gotten ICE into trouble in the past with its over-aggressive claims about websites. You'd think that ICE would have learned by now that the RIAA and MPAA are not exactly trustworthy when they insist someone is a "filthy pirate" who needs to be investigated. There is simply no reason for federal investigators to be involved at all, let alone called in to interrogate some guy wearing a new piece of technology that the MPAA has overreacted to.
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You'll get no argument from me. Nothing about DRM makes sense from any rational perspective. Personally, I find the entire concept offensive and would like to see it made illegal, as it cannot be employed without violating my fundamental property rights as owner of the device in question. But that's another topic.
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It also helps to ensure that if you legally acquire DVDs while abroad, you won't be able to play them at home.
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> you're not circumventing the DRM, you're putting the correct
> key in the lock so to speak. And no copy protection in CSS?
> So then...why would the movie studios who hate copies so much
> then push for CSS? I agree in that CSS doesn't actually prevent
> copying but that was its stated goal.
When you rip a DVD, or merely play it on an un-authorized player, you are also putting the correct key in the lock so to speak. The 'scrambling' of CSS is so weak that an old computer from the year 2000 can crack it by brute force in a few seconds. My understanding is that is how most open source players and rippers work.
I agree that ROT13 doesn't actually prevent reading a message, but that was its stated goal.
Does the stated goal matter? Even if it did (and it does not), should it?
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Just another kind of cartel.
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Can you get a major motion picture on a drm-less format, or for that matter, a drm-ed format that is playable on gglass?
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What the FUCK
I would've shrugged and went "Meh" over FBI involvement, as they OBVIOUSLY don't have anything better to do. But DHS? Immigration and Customs Enforcement? The people that supposedly can't secure the borders due to a lack of manpower? What the hell business do they have being involved in this?
God. Now I actually hope more people start doing this, so that these assholes have to waste more time being the lapdogs of their corporate overlords.
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I warned a lot of oblivious people that DHS was an anti American idea brought to us by the anti American Bush Admin. Now being commanded by the anti American Obama admin. With stupid Americans just sitting around doing nothing.
As others have said...
Motherland, Fatherland, Homeland... really? what is the difference?
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Those two words hurt my feelings.
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Those two words hurt my feelings.
See, I imagine the guy using his Glass to see those cinematic laser beam "tripwires" surrounding the projector equipment, trying to steal the movie Mission Impossible-style.
At least it would make the feds' involvement slightly more palatable.
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Caption: "Google Glass wearers, neither of whom are the man who was detained in Ohio."
My bet is a publicity stunt by Google, because that's actually the least wacky.
The alleged anonymous victim acted quite unwisely. Should always dummy up except calling for a lawyer.
Less likely was staged by MPAA.
But I'll need some truly independent source, as ALL the ones given are suspect.
Enjoy this flap, pirates! It's a doozy! I may even be with you here...
Google. We're spying right up to the creepy limit. (tm) -- And soon as you're used to it, we get creepier!
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The guy involved, the theater, the MPAA, and even ICE all admit that it happened... and you still blame Google.
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Ah, you can practically smell the desperation...
The guy involved, the theater, the MPAA, and even ICE all admit that it happened... and you still blame Google.
Sheesh. This story was so fishy that even Mike hedged on it at first!
I'm just waiting for more. And frankly, don't believe any of it!
But I definitely at this stage don't rule out Google as a publicity stunt.
I've NO trouble tossing you a bone, though: IF facts are substantiated, this is disturbing. But two points: I don't support MPAA near as much as you pirates claim that I do, AND as many others have commented on other sites, going into a movie wearing that gadget shows a certain lack of sense. That's all the substance I have for thinking it a Google stunt: they could intend to force it be accepted and this early stage, not actually on -- "Here! Connect it to a USB port and see for yourself!" -- That's just TOO helpful, as even Mike remarked in prior piece.
Keep your pants on, fanboy: you don't have any reason to beat off in jubilation that I'm wrong here, just yet...
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2138775/The-eye-borg-First-successful-implant -bionic-eye-restore-sight-blind.html
Basically a chip implanted onto the eye. If that chip had storage and a NIC, would you support copyright then? Supporting copyright in that world would mean literally forcing people to be blind unless they pay the toll.
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Of course! Beautiful, ain't it?
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Hollywood has already designed that and even drew up the blueprints and registered copyrights on it: if you don't pay (or get someone else to donate you some currency), you get killed instantly:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/
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Wait a minute...
Some positions simply can't be parodied.
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Waiting for more? What, do you want the manager of the movie theater in question, along with the guy who was harassed, and the agents involved, to post on TD personally, before you accept what they've already said?
But two points: I don't support MPAA near as much as you pirates claim that I do, AND as many others have commented on other sites, going into a movie wearing that gadget shows a certain lack of sense.
1) I don't believe I've ever seen you criticize the *AA's, or at least post anything stronger than mildly disapproving commentary, yet you constantly jump in to defend them when their actions are brought up, so the idea that you 'don't support them as much as people claim you do' is rather laughable.
2) As I've mentioned before and elsewhere, if you and others who throw out the 'all you pirates' accusations want to go around pirating all and sundry, whatever, but you really need to stop shifting the blame onto everyone else, or at least present some proof of your accusations.
3) You probably missed it, I mean it was clear in the tail end of the very first sentence of the article, but the reason he went into the theater with 'that gadget' was because it's built into his regular glasses. Taking it off would have the very same effect as anyone else taking their glasses off, a (potentially drastic) decrease in his ability to see, which would make watching a movie just a titch difficult.
"Here! Connect it to a USB port and see for yourself!" -- That's just TOO helpful, as even Mike remarked in prior piece.
From a legal, objective perspective sure, but when you consider the man had had his glasses snatched off his face, was dragged out of the theater, faced with a whole gang of cops, separated from his wife to be interrogated for a crime he didn't do, from his point of view at the time it probably made perfect sense.
They were claiming that he was recording the movie, what faster way to disprove that accusation than to let them access the device in question so they can see the video was nowhere on it?
Keep your pants on, fanboy: you don't have any reason to beat off in jubilation that I'm wrong here, just yet...
So, just wondering, but if you call everyone who posts here and disagrees with you 'fanboy', does that mean you'd be okay if everyone start referring to you as an *AA cheerleader, or just 'cheerleader' for short?
As for the last bit, considering you've already rejected all the statements made by all those involved, the idea that you'd even consider being mistaken on this is a joke; you've already made up your mind, don't try and pretend otherwise.
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Whatta ya mean START? I've been lied about continuously here! It's what you piratey fanboy-troll kids do instead of discuss the topic. -- Sure, call me cheerleader if you want! Sheesh. That won't get you on topic.
Let's see. I can't help what you've seen, or recall, but here again, after stating that you can't recall, you go on to asserting that I'm a huge supporter of MPAA. Kind of selective view you have there.
Yeah, I read prescription glasses, but that exactly fits the possible Google angle of getting Glass accepted in movie theaters: he has to wear them, see? -- If you can't see that fits my conjecture, fine. I'll state that all may truly be as stated, and that I doubt it. But don't tell me you KNOW: you're just gulping the story whole without any doubt. -- And I guess only because think you're winning a great victory over me here! That's your fanboy part, see? Even while denying me my view, you keep asserting the same fanboy view that I claim exists here...
Anyhoo, again, on the surface this story is SO fishy that Mike didn't believe it in the prior piece. So why should I?
The Google-Borg. Your privacy becomes our profit.
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Says the guy who wouldn't know what commenting while STAYING ON THE TOPIC was if it reached up and bit him in the ass.
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And now that it's been confirmed by AMC, the MPAA and ICE it's still fishy?
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Walks like a duck ...
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Sounds like a duck ...
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It must be Google!
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"Movie Theft"
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Thanks for giving them ideas.
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Google Glass has advanced technology that can suck the movie right off the screen and onto the Intarwebs. It's true I tell you! Just ask blue!
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http://www.imediaconnection.com/profiles/iMedia_PC_Bio.aspx?ID=60503
We have a new narrative spinner it seems.
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Maybe they've begun to sense a pattern in all their past failures when crying The Sky Is Falling at every new innovation that comes along.
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And as soon as they detained, then they *personally* are vulnerable to criminal and civil charges of false detainment/false arrest.
Hell, if they claim to be making a citizen's arrest, that doesn't protect them *personally* from the aforementioned charges.
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They can ask you to leave, but they have NO right to physically assault you.
The can deny you access, but they have NO right to physically assault you.
This here is one of the biggest problems with America, you think that you can do what ever you like, that everyone must respect your authority.
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I was not excusing someone else doing it.
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DHS and ICE?
Here's the bigger issue -- why is HOMELAND SECURITY overseeing movie theft?
I kind of get that ICE is under DHS, and ICE deals with customs which occasionally deals with bootleg DVDs going through customs. But seriously, unless this movie theater was in an airport or something, this is absurd.
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(I'm pretty sure that's the actual logic they use, even though it's gone past speciousness into pure absurdity.)
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And what ever happened to, "Hey, you... stop that!" rather than federal agents?
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The ridiculousness of this, apart from the over-the-top law enforcement response, is (1) that in this day and age of Blu Ray rips that the MPAA would even view shitty camcorder (Google Glass or whatever) recorded movie recordings as a serious threat to their bottom line and (2) that ICE managed to show up so quickly in force for such a minor issue
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> button under the counter, that notifies both MPAA and
> ICE whenever an individual theater operator suspects
> something?
What struck me as odd wasn't that ICE was called to the scene-- they have field offices all over the country-- but that the MPAA was right there within minutes, too. I mean, this was Columbus, not Los Angeles or New York. Does the MPAA have field offices and personnel in every city in America? How does the MPAA show up at a theater in Columbus within minutes of someone being suspected of illegal filming?
> Try getting the Feds to respond to ANYTHING within 90
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My agency is federal and we respond when notified by local law enforcement of violations of our core statutes in a lot less than 90 minutes.
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Stories like this one help making Americans realize who their true masters are and keep them in check.
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> customs which occasionally deals with bootleg DVDs
> going through customs. But seriously, unless this movie
> theater was in an airport or something, this is absurd.
Technically there is no ICE anymore. They were transitioned into the generic Homeland Security Investigations department last year. They still use and refer to their old name ICE because that's what the public knows, but if you look at their badges and creds, they now say HSI - Homeland Security Investigator.
And with that comes greatly expanded investigative jurisdiction. No longer are they limited to investigating customs and border-related crimes. They now have the broadest jurisdiction of any federal law enforcement agency, even the FBI, and they're constantly trying to expand, even to the point of poaching investigations for which they *don't* have any legal jurisdiction. For example, more and more these days HSI has been caught investigating counterfeit currency cases, even though the US Code gives the Secret Service sole jurisdiction over counterfeit currency. And when they're caught, HSI just collectively shrugs and tells the USSS (or the FBI, or whoever) to go pound sand.
This whole HSI thing is the brainchild of former Homeland Secretary Napolitano. She wanted to combine all the distinct agencies under Homeland (Border Patrol, ICE, Coast Guard, etc.) and turn them all into one huge generic investigative agency called Homeland Security Investigations. She ran into a few legal roadblocks-- for example, the US Code dictates that the Secret Service must remain a separate and distinct entity and cannot be combined or absorbed into any other agency or department, so Napolitano couldn't do anything with them without Congress changing the law. And the Coast Guard screamed bloody murder that Napolitano was trying to destroy a 200-year-old maritime tradition and Congress forced her to back off from them, as well. But she did manage to combine ICE and Border Patrol into HSI before she left office, so this is why you see what used to be ICE doing a lot of non-ICE-related enforcement actions.
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Because the MPAA pays them to. That is why.
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But my actions won't affect this a lot as I already don't go to the movies. Call me a dissatisfied customer from long ago that will not set foot in one today. I refuse to give my money to people that act like this and some of the past boners they've pulled.
I suspect if everyone just decided to boycott the movies on the big opening season movies in protest of all these acts it would not be long in them getting the message they have to do things another way... that is besides beating the crap out of someone before they check to find out if anyone has really done anything.
One thing about it. They can't just pull the money out of my pocket, where it is going to stay. I've wasted enough time and money on sub par movies. Let the MPAA go feel each other up till they find the guilty one. Maybe ICE can get in on that one.
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What other corporations have their own private army of Federal Special Agents at the disposal, to do their bidding at the drop of a hat? Something is very wrong with this picture.
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Finally something the TSA can get involved in that I can get behind
As they have already stated that "there has been no credible threat" to hijack domestic aircraft, since the cockpit doors have been installed, that the TSA could have stopped, perhaps it is time they pull double duty and collect ticket stubs while they "protect us" from the credible threat of "movie theft".
Think about it. They could even deploy their VIPR teams to shoot movie-goers that use their cellphones during a feature so that retired cops don't have to!
Now that is a deployment of the TSA I could get behind!
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It seems that you have failed to comprehend the missive of TSA. Interstate travel usually involves onboard entertainment. Once you realize that, a lot of things start making sense. Like confiscating liquids endangering concessions.
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Answer: See New Mexico.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/07/what-is-the-quantum-of-proof-necessary-for-police-to-rape-a nd-torture-you-in-new-mexico/
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Thailand Vocabulary Helper
The Navy Denies that it's Seal teams bombed anti-democracy protestors (an alleged false flag operation designed to provide an excuse for a coup).
They do however confirm their Seal teams were sent to the PDRC to act as guards.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/390750/navy-blames-bombings-on-2010-culprits
"Rear Admiral Winai Klom-in also said he had received intelligence reports that "foreigners" from across the eastern border were transported on Monday in 10 passenger vans in order to instigate violence"
Vocabulary Helper: Thaksin, the Prime Minister they deposed in the coup of 2006, became a special trade adviser to Cambodia, so the then (unelected) Democrat government kicked up a war with Cambodia to demonize them, and now Bluesky TV propaganda always refers to 'army from the east' in a real suspicious way, meaning some sort of imaginary army controlled by Thaksin in Cambodia.
A bit of scaremongering to keep the supporters fooled.
Both Fridays and Sundays bombers are believed to be connected, people point to Sunday's bomber as possibly matching PDRC own (!) guard, who is a Navy Seal. It is expected that the Navy will assist police by handing over the two suspects to be ruled out of their inquiries.
Other terms you'll read many times: "fugitive in Dubai" refers to Thaksin, who is in self imposed exile in Dubai, they've convicted him of corruption, hence 'fugitive'. By phrasing it that way it makes it sound more mysterious.
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In related news, a woman's group has condemned remarks from a Phuket (?) hospital doctor, who threatened to perform surgery on the Prime Minister Yingluk's genitals to make them tight for her next husband, and suggested they mint a naked coin of her, and that she could still become a naked model because she still menstruates, lots of dehumanizing phrases designed to intimidate and demean.
His speech was broadcast in full on Bluesky TV, together with Suthep's threat to kidnap her and detain her till she resigns.
The hospital has yet to comment on his remarks.
Obviously, if you're dehumanizing women, you don't ever plan to be elected, since women have the vote here. It follows that there will never be any democracy under Suthep, for a very very long time, because he could never allow a vote to happen.
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Something happened last night on TV, an interview, I cannot discuss it, but it was a major major thing here in Thailand. Do you see it splashed all over the news? Nope! Yet it is the one and only topic of discussion today.
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This video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorEeTVDFZE&list=UU6S1mez4I0c86zEyObiYiKA
The scared man in the elevator is DSI, the police special investigations. The bigger man and his associate are trying to drag him out, away from the cameras.
The DSI man is pleading for his life, "I'm scared I'm scared" but the bigger man is saying he's unarmed, and the DSI man is crazy and "this is what a Thaksin agent looks like".
Yet the DSI man probably saved his own life with that "I'm scared I'm scared in front of the cameras" today. DSI has murder charges against Suthep outstanding, and insurgency charges.
This man is a known gunman for Suthep, the dictator guy.
I'll post a photograph in the next reply so you can understand. (Techdirt crops my posts if I post 2 links in one article).
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http://www.matichon.co.th/online/2010/04/12706306691270630873l.jpg
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This video shows the dictators mob fighting with police, at the 2 minute point, a 'volunteer' for Suthep shows off his wrecked car, and says 'the police did this. Not some 'third hand', the police! I'm a volunteer for the protestors and the police burned my car'.
As he's talking, a man in green comes up to him and says "Bro, I burned the other car already, it was easy" and he looks around realizes they're on camera and says "take it easy" in an awkward manner as they shake hands:
http://youtu.be/3PawhAiDEEA?t=2m1s
The men are speaking with a Southern accent, which is where Sutheps stronghold is. (Are they military even??)
In the interview afterward, the man is claiming to not know the other man. He claims this strange man came up to him and said that, but he doesn't know him.
He goes on to say he just came back to his car and it was destroyed, he didn't see the people who did it. But then fails to explain his earlier claim that the police did it.
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really?
Don't be shocked to find that those devices get legal restrictions put on them, they violate privacy at every turn.
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Fuck it, you're too scummy to merit a limerick.
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Who hated the glasses of Googe
Some specs he did find
Made some poor sap blind
And coated the specs in his spooge
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"My car is being stolen!"
"An officer will call you back within a week."
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"911, what's your emergency?"
"A movie is being stolen."
"Please stay on the line. An armed response will be with you immediately."
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"911, what's your emergency?"
"My car is being stolen!"
"An officer will call you back within a week."
"But I left a DVD movie on the back seat!"
"Please stay on the line. An armed response will be with you immediately."
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"There's a school shooting."
"Officers will be there within hours."
"The guy's a pirate and uploaded a bunch of stuff."
"Officers with machine guns, helicopters, riot gear and tear gas will be there within half an hour."
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"The presence of this recording device prompted an investigation by the MPAA, which was on site" What the hell is the MPAA doing just hanging out at a movie theater? Isn't there a streaming site to sent nastygrams to?
" The MPAA then contacted Homeland Security, which oversees movie theft." Homeland Security oversees movie "theft." WHAT?! Shouldn't they be securing the border? Looking for drugs in shipping containers? Turning back Mexicans at the border? No, they are in the middle of Ohio looking into someone with a "recording device" at a movie theater. Bang up job. My homeland feels much more secure now.
"Google Glass is an incredible innovation in the mobile sphere, and we have seen no proof that it is currently a significant threat that could result in content theft." ...'But that didn't stop us from calling in federal agents as if it were a significant threat.'
And then ICE is involved. let's look at the jurisdictions here. Does camming a movie have to do with:
-Homeland Security?
-Immigrations?
-Customs?
I repeat: What the actual fuck?
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Wait, it was that Jack Ryan retread?
In that case, I can think of a million better things to do.
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I hope he sues...
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i love you ruby
I love you very much Kay McPhee!
I love you!
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Love, Kay.
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How....
That's one of the totally screwed up things about grouping completely unrelated agencies together.
That's like the CIA showing to interrogate somewhat pulled over transporting a crate of rifles (legally)... which should be the ATF...
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Rumor has it
That's the Campaign Contributor Fulfillment Bureau in a move to increase transparency.
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If he wants to watch a movie but doesn't want to risk being accused and harassed by someone for doing something that he wasn't doing in public. He lowers that risk by not going in public and instead staying with in the confines of his private residence. So then instead of going to the movie he has to make the movie come to him. Since the movie isn't available through legitimate means without putting himself at risk, that only leaves illegitimate options available. Sounds like a perfectly logical process to me.
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A logically correct statement would be "that's why I watch movies at home".
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Where is this legal service that you want me to go to?
Try living in a country that is not the US. You get to wait months after the initial release and pay triple what the US pays when it does arrive in the country.
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If you want to avoid the risk of being hassled, don't go to the theater, and don't pirate. That might mean you can't watch Game of Thrones. Welcome to the club: I live in the US and can't watch it, either.
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Think of the safety of our hard-working patriotic men and women in the ICE...
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Where does it end?
God forbid I should watch 22 seconds of CBS News in a storefront window!
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Een if the worst was true
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In this case, it's data, and they have no legal basis for the claim. They can't even claim "common law (OOTB)" rights as it's data, not a creative work.
So they were just plain wrong. And damn stupid.
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Boycott
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I'd say it's obvious who they're really working for.
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Quick Question
If this happened to you in the year 1980 what country would you say you were in?
If this happened to you in the year 2014 what country would you say you were in?
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2014: In the USA.
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"Briefly Interviewed"
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Now, in addition to the assholes who don't mute their phones, retards who feel its perfectly fine to make/take calls during the movie, and dickheads who text, I've got to worry about some fucktarded, overpaid ICE douchebag coming up to me and ripping the glasses off my face, because "piracy."
Great job MPAA/ICE/FBI! You've guaranteed I will NEVER set foot in a theater again.
Keep up the shitty work (especially you ICE folks - I love knowing how my tax dollars are being spent)!
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Along those lines, maybe they need to strip search everyone!
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/hidden-camera-tie.html
MIGHT HAVE A PEN ON THEM!
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LIFEHACKER! HOW COULD YOU!?!?
http://lifehacker.com/5959709/how-to-secretly-snap-top-secret-photos-without-anyone-noticing
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who's the "man up the chain?"
What I don't get is who were they asking for when they were looking for the man "up the chain"? I mean, surely its pretty much a one man operation to record a video and upload it to the internet? and even if you were going to resell pirate copies, wouldn't it make more sense to just download the pirate copies off of the internet and burn those to disk, rather than try to get them yourself? I mean, back in the day it might have required more manpower to create and distribute illegal copies for financial gain, but now it could be done by any 13 year old with a dvd burner and an internet connection.
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What he should have done,,,
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Never going to a movie theater again.
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Cronies and their thug enforcers
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Is this a publicity stunt?
Why didn't the MPAA call in ICE to raid Degeneres' studio for her "movie theft".
Somehow I think this is a poorly-planned publicity stunt for the MPAA, AMC theaters, "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (the movie the guy was watching), or even Google Glass. First, like other posters are saying, it seems awfully convenient that ICE agents were available to show up at the theater so quickly: "an hour into the movie", as the guy says. It seems almost like a set-up: maybe the guy had been to the theater before and an employee wanted the $500 bounty. Then the theater had the agencies on "standby" in case this happened again.
It also seems like extreme overkill. The article on BuzzFeed makes it sound like there was a team of police and agents waiting for the guy. Yet if someone shoplifts a DVD from a store (which is a real theft), one or maybe two police officers will be called. But as the MPAA wants us to believe, recording a movie will cause much more financial damage than actually stealing a DVD.
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