Night vision Goggles catch Spidey-2 bootlegger

Daniel Pass 1 Jul, 2004 at 9:41am ET Article published in Tech

A 16-year-old was arrested early Wednesday in a theater showing “Spider-man 2” after a projectionist using night vision goggles saw him using a camcorder to make an illegal copy of the superhero sequel.

You may remember The Guardian reporting that Time Warner was handing out Night vision systems to British cinemas, for this very effect: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1228203,00.html

Appearently they gave a few freebies here too 😀

Submitted by: Templar

Source: Sfgate

Comments

1 Jul 2004 ~ 12:23pm TheBaron every time i see a premiere or early screening of a movie they have the nightvision guys chilling out. i always thought it was pretty cool
1 Jul 2004 ~ 2:14pm MrNiceGuy Ugh, yes please catch the people and stop them from shoving more garbage on the Internet.
1 Jul 2004 ~ 2:27pm croc_ Yeah, let the guys with VHS screeners make the illegal copies, I hate the ones video taped in the theatres :P

I used to work in a theatre in the projection room. I wore plain clothes and after starting all the movies I would go into them and check for movie hoppers and underage kids in R movies. Never found anyone using a camcorder though.
1 Jul 2004 ~ 3:46pm Thrax Go go gadget russian telecines!
2 Jul 2004 ~ 4:00am Jengo when will they start doing this in US theatres.. im tired of all my friends downloading stupid movies and not going to watch them at the theatres... it makes me mad... i cant brag anymore.. lol...

i will be like "Hey man i went to go see Chronicles of Riddick!!"

there response: oh i seen that yesterday, i downloaded it...

IT JUSTGETS ME ANGRY!!!! heh... WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?! heh...
2 Jul 2004 ~ 4:11am Thrax The justice you seek is fumbling around <s>in their pants</s> in courtrooms with the Kazaa users.
2 Jul 2004 ~ 10:20am EyesOnly I hate bootlegged movies. I'd rather pay to see a movie then to see a telecine.
2 Jul 2004 ~ 11:01am bothered Mmmmm, night vision goggles.
2 Jul 2004 ~ 11:05am TheBaron

EyesOnly wrote:

I hate bootlegged movies. I'd rather pay to see a movie then to see a telecine.

agreed. unless it was some movie i would never pay to see, then i could see the value of a bootleg (from a purely monetary standpoint... for example, who the hell wants to see "dumb and dumberer")