Lee's Summit cops bust joker pirating movie
A very smart local blogger (and the news) report that Lee's Summit po-po are letting everybody know that they're working hard to protect the copyrights of the Motion Picture Association of America (along with taking orders from MPAA contract employees). Allegedly, they caught a 40 year old Grandview resident video-taping the movie “The Dark Knight” and subsequently arrested him thereby saving this suburban community from the so-called violation of archaic laws that are soon to be obsolete by the dawning of the digital age . . . Also, I guess there wasn't any real crime in Lee's Summit yesterday. Still, it's hard to use fair use and satire (parody) as a defense for video taping a movie (Thank you 1st Amendment for protecting TKC) but it's equally hard to believe that somebody actually went to jail over this rather than simply being thrown out of the theater by ushers . .. . Are they also locking people up for spiting on the sidewalk or jaywalking?
posted by Tony Permalink
Checked out the movie at Village West tonight and there were at least three theater employees in my show, one of which consistently walked up and down the aisle. That had be part of the reason.
why do they bother? There is already a CAM XViD of it on majore sites. MPAA fails again.
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