Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Malaysia goes high tech vs Pirates

Hey if you are watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3 there may actually be real pirates in the cinema crowd! :)


Night vision used to catch film pirates. 28/05/2007. ABC News Online


Malaysian cinemas have found a powerful new weapon in their fight against movie pirates - military-style night vision goggles.


After showing people to their seats, trained ushers strap on the
goggles and scan darkened cinemas around the country to spot anyone
trying to make illegal copies of movies with hand-held video recorders
or mobile phones.


The Motion Picture Association, which is training Malaysian ushers
to catch the pirates, say cinemas have caught 17 people in the past two
months, during which Hollywood studios released blockbusters like
Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean.


Wow 17 people already caught! Has anybody seen the ushers wearing those goggles? And in which cinemas? TGV?

2 comments:

NickTay said...

Can you really make a pirated movie recording on a Handphone? Seriously?

conan_cat said...

whoa, got such thing ah?? i've been to the movies at the first few days of their screening, and no i haven't seen anyone with googles... must be real interesting though! :D