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I can sympathise with the desire the reduce piracy, although surely anyone who wants to watch a pirated film does so from downloaded torrents, rather than asking a mate to video something for them? (Maybe i'm wrong).
For me, I can tell you that if my local cinema wanted to keep any of my posessions for any short duration i'd simply boycot the cinema. Easy.
They're fighting an impossible battle. Only one person has to sneak a recording device in, and then the film is pirated (if it hasn't been synced off the projector or via some other means already anyway).
I don't see why they'd bother, other than to say "if you get caught recording you're banned/fined".
But I guess the film industry puts unreasonable pressure on them.
TBH it has never occurred to me to take a laptop into a cinema. Someone using a laptop while watching a film in the cinema would be pretty distracting for the other people in the cinema anyway, so that's justification for the banning alone.
Ah well, that rules out me watching a movie while watching a movie.. ;)
Although as our local Vue has a Starbucks - that's obviously not so good for people who've popped in to use watch a film, and take advantage of their wireless link before or after.
I don't think he planned to use it, he says he went straight from work.Quote:
Originally Posted by redddraggon
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Originally Posted by kalniel
For me, I always find that when Bruce and Arnie are on the screen its the perfect time to catch up with my Excel Accounts!
Very true - a lot of people must just go to the cinema on spec - and this could prove a problem ... who really wants to risk leaving a laptop in their car while watching a film?Quote:
Originally Posted by mycarsavw
I catch a tube to the cinema so I have no car to leave it in, I certainly wouldn't leave any of my electronics with the cinema staff, sorry but I just don't trust them to look after my stuff and return it unmolested. So if they refuse me at the door they'll be losing my business.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidM
Way to go Vue, put off the few people left who still go to your cinemas! Genius.
dont worry guys, most will not wont care who work there...
awful idea, that doesnt prevent anything.
I think I'd trust it more in my car than in the "cloakroom" (or wherever they'd be leaving them) of a Multiplex Vue.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidM
Honestly never occurred to me to take a laptop in with me. As for banning them, well I'd get a bit miffed if someone was sitting next to me typing or watching youtube vids. Don't really see what effect it will have on piracy, as commercial piracy generally involves someone on the take in the projector room and someone recording the output to the headphone jack that's supposed to be there for the hard of hearing. That or just getting one of the ten's of thousands of copies of a movie sent out in advance for review.
CAM's released on the internet are a whole other problem, which is what this draconian and pointless policy seems to be aimed at. Great move pee'ing off millions of customers targeting what's not actually the real problem. Low level piracy like this is not the problem, it's been around nearly as long as the industry has; seriously, they were fuming and spitting about the phonograph being the "death of music", when it was invented and well, they're still doing well enough to attain enough power and wealth to influence world governments and force them into secret back room negotiations posing one of the greatest threats to human rights in decades. I think they're still doing ok.
End of the day if someone was willing to watch the movie on a dark shaky handycam they were never going to buy your product anyway, those who're commercially pirating, providing high quality rips and selling them are really where they should be focused I would have thought simply because those sales are actual lost sales, but I guess taking on criminal gangs is harder than pressuring an already struggling industry, suing grannies and lobbying governments and these people wonder why despite most people believing in copyright and understanding it's importance in our advancement have absolutely no sympathy for the entertainment industry.
Last but not least, I wouldn't trust some teenager on minimum wage I met 10 seconds ago to look after hundreds of pounds of electronics, filled with personal data for me.
I'm pretty sure that people werent using them whilst in the actual screens, or handing them over to the staff, for 'safe keeping' for the duration of the film.
More, my laptop is in the car, I will carry it in with me, and just have it by my feet, or on any spare chairs with my coat etc.
I regularly decide to pop into the cinema on my way back from work, as I have to pretty much drive past the complex with it in, so no I am not going to a) leave my laptop at work, or b) go all the way home, dump stuff and go out again, or c) leave my laptop in the car.
I really see no problem in taking it in with me. Challenge me on this, then you have to ask the question, why not ban women bringing in there handbags etc?
I think that cinemas should require all people to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements preventing them from discussing any details of the film with any other person, before allowing anyone to watch a film. After all - why should I go and see a film if I already know what happens?
Next, the American and British film and music industries can collaborate to form one big enforcement agency (let's call it the Smile Society, which sounds nice). This "SS" can go around people's houses in the dead of night, bursting through doors to check for 'piracy' or if they hear rumours about people discussing films or singing songs, and take them away quietly.
Now what could be wrong with that?
Guys, welcome to big content logic. Protecting the industry by ignoring pirates stamping out hundreds of thousands of discs, and prosecuting and discouraging loyal and legitimate customers, and bribing politicians to crush individual liberties and human rights.