So Why Did The MPAA Need New Camcording Laws Again?
Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 28 October 2008
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.