Police Arrest Man Camming ‘The Dark Knight’
Written by enigmax on July 20, 2008A man allegedly seen ‘camming’ the latest Batman movie has been arrested by police. Following guidelines, theater employees called the police after suspicions were aroused. According to the MPAA, many other movies have been recorded at this theater.
It was always going to be a big, big movie and it certainly didn’t disappoint, going to set a one-day box office record of $66.4 million on opening day, according to Warner’s head of distribution, Dan Fellman. No one, not even pirates are allowed to ruin this party.
Hindering piracy of the movie was always high on the list for Warner and it handed out night vision goggles in Australia in an attempt to thwart ‘cammers’ - people who record movies in theaters. In Australia ‘cammers’ are asked to leave if they are caught by theater staff, in the United States things are a little different.
According to reports, on Friday morning Eastglen 16 Theater employees grew suspicious that a man was recording, or ‘camming’ the “Dark Knight” movie. Following movie industry guidelines they called police at around 9:40pm, who arrived shortly after.
Lee’s Summit police confirmed that they found evidence that the 40-year-old man from Grandview, Mo. had recorded the movie so they arrested him. A few hours later the police went to the man’s house and conducted a search where they say they found pirate movies on DVD.
According to the MPAA, several other movies have been recorded at the Eastglen 16 theater, but at this stage it is not known if the man is affiliated with any particular group or was acting alone. Police have not released the name of the suspect.
Inevitably, and despite the best efforts of Warner, Rlslog reports that a copy of the movie has been leaked onto the Internet by a release group called “TradingStandards” who apparently ’stole’ it from a P2P group called ‘DEViSE’ who actually ’stole’ it from 2Bros - quite confusing. But anyway, by most accounts the quality is pretty poor and not worth bothering with at all, so Warner will be happy.
Considering the popularity of the movie, maybe this time it just has to be the big screen.
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All you IDIOTS who say that it is stealing are F’N SNITCHING FOOLS and thats the bottomline cause I said so.
Let me see some MPAA IDIOT at a theatre I go to and I will personally walk up and ask em are they ready to be a hero for STUPID crap?
Furthermore IF I ever decide to go to a theatre and cam a movie I’ll be taking my 9mm Glock with armor piercing rounds with me in case some minimum wage loser decides he wants to be a hero for the MPAA because If Im going to get 3-5 years for camming I may as well shoot the SNITCHING loser and anyone else associated with them but not kill em that way the 3-5 years will be justified for shooting SNITCHING BITCHES!!!
I won’t pay them one cent ever again. Not at the theatre, not at WalMart. You hear that studio suits?!!?
I am going to make sure you MPAA LOSERS never receive my money, my family’s money, my friends money. I am going to actively impact your bottomline. I am going to enjoy dropping the dime on you to anyone who will listen. I’m going to continue to Download it all off the usenet anyways and watch it for free. And then burn DVD’s of all the movies I download and sell them to friends and associates to further finance my internet and usenet activities like I have been for years already and all the while laughing at you F’N FOOLS who think that I should kiss your asses or go to prison. I will go to prison when they pry my cold dead hands from around my Glock and then I wont be going to prison I’ll be going to meet GOD who will welcome me to Heaven with OPEN arms and 100 fine ass young virgins for making everyones lives on earth more enjoyable with all the stuff I gave away for FREE on the usenet and torrents for over 5 years now. SO think about that all you MPAA supporters!!!
And then along comes the DVDSCR like what happened with 300. Lol.
I find somebody with a camcorder in my theatre, getting handed over to the cops would be the BEST-case scenario.
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