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Inconvenient Measures to Combat 'Indiana Jones' Pirates
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The nomadic DVD peddlers in Chinatown and other urban areas seem virtually unstoppable, but that hasn't kept Hollywood studios from launching various attempts to prevent movie piracy. Boing Boing reports on the rumor that at least one theater has been silencing the soundtrack in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull throughout the film in order to mess with potential bootleggers trying to record the thing. If true, it's got to be one of the most brain dead attempts at security since the rise of quart-sized bags. When you really get down to it, most two-bit criminals with camcorders in their laps don''t really care if the quality of the movie they're recording suffers, since the resulting product will already feature lo-fi video, the overlapping sounds of laughter and other audience reactions, and silhouetted cameos from patrons venturing to the concession stands or taking bathroom breaks. With all that, the intermittent exclusion of music doesn't sound like a major concern for the bad guys.
Studio anti-piracy measures are notoriously ill-conceived. Premieres and all-media screenings often force critics and even the filmmakers themselves to undergo intense evaluations before they're allowed to enter the theaters, while films open to the public, where pirates are more likely to show up, don't take any precautions. Granted, multiplexes wouldn't help their business if attending them felt like entering an airport terminal, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way to prevent the crimes from taking place. Anyone care to offer some ideas?
[Via Movie City News]
Want to legally download a movie? Move to France
Filed under: Tech Stuff », Distribution », Politics »
French lawmakers voted early this morning to open up restrictions on peer-to-peer downloads, paving the way
for legal and (almost) free online sharing of music and movies the nation over. It's all dependent on one ammendment to
an intellectual copyright bill that' s moving through the French legal system, which states that
studios and recording companies can't legally stop users from sharing their works online, as long as the users aren't
commericailly exploiting the materials they download, and procure media only for private use. The ammendment would have
French internet users pay a still-unspecified download tax to their Internet provider, who would then pass the money on
to an umbrella organization set up to disseminate artist's royalites. So essentially, under this model, internet access
would become more expensive for everyone, but media could be shared for free and without the idea of "piracy"
(or prosecution) ever entering into it. The ammendment passed this morning by a vote of 30-28, but most of the French
legislature was not present. It can be overturned if the majority decides to vote the bill
down to the senate, or reopen the debate. 
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