So Why Did The MPAA Need New Camcording Laws Again?

Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 28 October 2008
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The "losses" from camcorded movies are minimal, though it didn't stop the MPAA from totally making up numbers that were clearly bogus.

They claimed that anti-camcording laws in the US had wiped out piracy in the US. Two months later when they were pushing for such laws in the US, suddenly New York represented 40% of all camcorded movies.

So, it's rather interesting to see that a guy who was caught camcording movies in Maryland was just sentenced to 21 months in prison under a 2005 law.

Just learn from it: don't go to the theatres and download your movies from P2P.