Film piracy

mctrials23 · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:11

how poor quality would a camera phones video be, i mean come on thats madness.

Dave · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:20

buckeejit said:
to tell you the truth, it must be making a diffence because within the past 6 months compared to last yr...... the number of movies that have been leaked onto the net have been very little.

Hmm . . . I'd disagree. There have been plenty of leaks, and not just camcorder recorded ones - reviewal DVDs have been mercilessly ripped and torrented (is that a verb?) as well. Of course, none that I would know about.

SiD the Turtle · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:24

Asking to confiscate my own property off of me before going to a screening I am paying for == me asking for my money back, boycotting the film, an convincing all my friends not to see it either.

Redrum · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:29

Thats quite amazingly pathetic. If anything, they should let people pirate it on mobiles. Surely its got to be good for their any pirate cause if the pirate copies have come from a wobbly camera phone at 10 frames a second, and about 50x50 res.

Davey_Pitch · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:30

SiD the Turtle said:
Asking to confiscate my own property off of me before going to a screening I am paying for == me asking for my money back, boycotting the film, an convincing all my friends not to see it either.

That's my opinion as well. I'm all for stopping privacy, but if they wanted to take my phone off me I'd tell them where to get off, then demand a refund.

Wossi · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:31

If they tried too taie my phone of meI'd tell them where to stiki it and go see another film. Hoe can you record an enbtire film on your phone anyway?

EDIT: apolgies for speeling, i've been drinking tonight in preperation for boirthday tomorrotw zo/

Davey_Pitch · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:33

R0551 said:
If they tried too taie my phone of meI'd tell them where to stiki it and go see another film. Hoe can you record an enbtire film on your phone anyway?

EDIT: apolgies for speeling, i've been drinking tonight in preperation for boirthday tomorrotw zo/

Quoted so you can see it tomorrow when you're sober and not edit out every single **** up you made

Gilly · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:34

DiG said:
They wouldn't be getting my phone off me!! They might get the battery as a comprimise but the phone? No way, you couldn't record anything of decent quality on them anyway

Bingo

I wouldn't be handing my phone over.

spirit · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:36

Cueball said:
Most pirating comes from the US anyway.

read eastern europe & asia ?

Youstolemyname · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:45

Vertigo1 said:
Anyone else come across security like this at a film?

Yup, most premieres I have attended have had these sorts of issues.

Wossi · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:53

Davey_Pitch said:
Quoted so you can see it tomorrow when you're sober and not edit out every single **** up you made

Git

EDIT: Plus it's my birthday tomor3row so i'm alloeded to be drunk and post wierd stuuf

JonC · 26 Apr 2006 at 23:54

spirit said:
read eastern europe & asia ?

Lots of pirated films come from (came from) "screener" releases, released to film reviewers and assorted film bods so they can watch them at home.

They have recently clamped down on screener ripping by inserted ID tags into screeners so that the copy used to make pirated copies can be traced.

Camera phones, they try that and they may get a bit of a lesson in logic. If it's one thing I hate it's doing things just so that they are done, with no rational explanation.

jonc

Scam · 27 Apr 2006 at 00:03

Al Vallario said:
Talking about piracy is a bit sketchy but the anti-piracy messages you see before films are way off the mark. When films are leaked onto the net they're most certainly not in the form of a grainy video clip filmed on a camera phone...

Not from a camera phone no, but 70% of piracy comes from camera recordings, believe it or not. I dont know why as theyre generally crap quality compared to screen rips!

Most (if not all) screeners for AMPAS and BAFTA now can only be played in registered DVD players. The member gets sent the DVD player, registers it.. and each DVD sent is registered/watermarked to them. Makes it all traceable.

However i think checking people for cameras/phones is terrible and just another example of them going completely the wrong way about combatting piracy. Do they really think people are going to be attempting to record a film in a busy showing? Rubbish.. surely it's all done at quiet late-night showings with no one around.

ArmyofHarmony · 27 Apr 2006 at 00:38

wow, never thought they'd take camera phones off people, that should be illegal.

The movie industry is a collective bunch of pirates

Who records films on camera phones? NOBODY, why are they bothering.

Stellios · 27 Apr 2006 at 00:41

Its ridiculous, and pointless. Films get out in such a quality that the old fashioned camera in the cinema isnt good enough quality any more.

I can understand checking for video cameras, but the film will get out there whether its on the day of the preview on on the day of release.

Sirrel Squirrel · 27 Apr 2006 at 00:47

That's just stupid, no way could you record a film of decent quality onto a phone, besides most piracy comes from reviewal dvds, dodgy cinema managers with digital recorders and also mastering and duplication companies, only takes a dodgy operator a few minutes to make themselves a copy of the latest film.

VeNT · 27 Apr 2006 at 00:47

I'm sick of paying £5 or more to see a low quality film AT THE CINIMA, why the HELL should I PAY to see somthing thats on a buggered reel with more holes than swiss chease.
bring on the digital cinimas

pyro · 27 Apr 2006 at 03:09

Well it was a free film (I take it with screening you mean free film anyway) so whatever they feel like doing is "ok". On the other hand, if that would happen in an actuall cinema I'd probably just take the **** out of the security guy. Yeah he's only doing his job, but I'd offer him to check if I'd stove a camera/tripod up my colon or something along the line.

VeNT said:
I'm sick of paying £5 or more to see a low quality film AT THE CINIMA, why the HELL should I PAY to see somthing thats on a buggered reel with more holes than swiss chease.
bring on the digital cinimas

I really like the whole going to the movies thing, but the showing times are for kiddies, there's always dim lights on (yeah I am being picky because I'm always paying for my girl, me and the popcorn) as well as some idiots trying to ruin the movie.

But the popcorn there is just amasing, I'd drive up and get a bag of them, then go home and watch the movie on my pc

suicidle_tramp said:
"Hello!? I can't talk right now! I'm in the cinema!"

Whispering for the win.

locutus12 · 27 Apr 2006 at 04:07

6thElement said:
I believe the fact the US started locking people up for 5 years if they caught them doing it probably acts as a deterrant

2 words,

sweden.
No warez site talk!

the U.S.A. can lock people up for as long as they like, theres bugger all they can do about sweden, a country of some 8 million people, 80% of which use illegal downloading, hence no politicle pressure will ever work there...

economics wont work either, there a very rich country (must be all that nazi gold that went "missing" ) and there a very self reliant country, indeed they claim they will have an oil free economy by 2020. so for as long as people set up server homes in sweden, it will continue globally, undeterred.

personally if they just gave us the D.V.D movie without all the utter crap (directors commentary, ect ect) in a standard dvd case with minimal packaging and charged £5 to £7 for the film, they would knock the bottom out of the illegal trade, but as it stands, they wont budge on the £15 to £25 they charge us now, so it will continue untill they give the people what they want.

Freedom · 27 Apr 2006 at 04:09

But, How do they know you got a mobile, As far as i know only the police are allowed to Search a person a security gaurd or anobody else is only allowed to have a look inside an open bag, they are not allowed to touch anything.

But i could be wrong