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Martin McCaffery
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posted 10-29-2014 06:42 PM
quote: Movie Industry Officially Bans Google Glass, Other Wearable Devices
OCTOBER 29, 2014 | 09:41AM PT Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor @xpangler Google Glass and other wearable devices are now officially off-limits in the cinema.
On Wednesday, the MPAA and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced an update to their joint policy to prevent film theft in theaters, prohibiting recording by users equipped with Google Glass or other wearables in theaters.
The update “was made to fully integrate wearable tech into the rules following a joint meeting of NATO and MPAA theatrical anti-piracy teams,” the lobbying orgs said. The announcement was made at ShowEast 2014, NATO’s annual industry confab in Hollywood, Fla.
The issue, while it hasn’t cropped up much, has prompted Hollywood to act. This January, a man who was wearing a Google Glass headset during a showing of “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” at an AMC Theatres location in Columbus, Ohio, was questioned by agents from the Dept. of Homeland Security about whether he was illegally recording the film.
Here is the is full statement from the groups:
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have a long history of welcoming technological advances and recognize the strong consumer interest in smart phones and wearable “intelligent” devices. As part of our continued efforts to ensure movies are not recorded in theaters, however, we maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward using any recording device while movies are being shown. As has been our long-standing policy, all phones must be silenced and other recording devices, including wearable devices, must be turned off and put away at show time. Individuals who fail or refuse to put the recording devices away may be asked to leave. If theater managers have indications that illegal recording activity is taking place, they will alert law enforcement authorities when appropriate, who will determine what further action should be taken.
Variety Article
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Marcel Birgelen
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From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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posted 10-30-2014 07:06 PM
Most articles make it look like if it was targeted at Google Glass specifically. In my opinion, you should not even need to specifically name any device type, as they tend to evolve year after year. You can even record videos with some watches nowadays. In a few years, the first things your bionic implants can do is checking your Facebook account and sharing pictures and videos off all your important happy moments in your life...
Still, to get even a barely usable result, you would need to use some more beefy gear, like one of those GoPro Hero cams, they could probably record the whole show in FullHD or even 4K. And they're small and you don't wear them on your face .
On a rather interesting side note: many of those "professional" cam-jobs seem to have originated from cinema personnel themselves, including audio that was captured directly from the decoder...
I've done some "legal cam jobs" myself, by filming 16mm and 35mm footage off a screen as means of low-cost a/d conversion. To get something usable, you really need to do quite some tweaking, a good camera position and (semi) professional gear. Not something you could do unnoticed.
But then again, I guess my standards are a bit higher. I still don't get how anybody could seriously watch some dudes personal, feature length theater recording of a proper movie...
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