Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Finally Hollywood makes a good move!

Finally Hollywood has made a great move in their attempt to stop movie piracy. Rather than trying to kill fair use or suing 12 year old kids for downloading content they have decided to make a strong effort to stop piracy where it starts, at the theaters. The studios are offering a $500 reward to employees of movie theaters for every person they catch using a camcorder to record the films. This is the right approach to help curb piracy of newly released films since employees of movie theaters, most likely making around $10 per hour would love to catch a few people a week to supplement their income. In my opinion, it is the guy carrying the camcorder into a theater that is the criminal Hollywood should go after, not the father making backups of his DVD collection because his kids throw them around like frisbees.

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