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John Wilson
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posted 07-15-2008 09:02 PM
Link to story.
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Night-vision goggles in battle for Batman
July 16, 2008 12:05am
IT'S a tactic fit for a Hollywood sci-fi script.
The studio behind the latest Batman instalment The Dark Knight will issue all Australian cinemas with night-vision goggles in a bid to thwart would-be movie pirates. The movie is the last film Heath Ledger completed before his death.
In what is believed to be a first for an Australian film release, Village Roadshow has urged all exhibitors to use the goggles in the first screenings of the film, which will be seen here almost two days before its US and European release.
In a memo to exhibitors yesterday, Roadshow asked that staff use the goggles to identify anyone filming the movie.
"Should anyone be caught filming on anything, regardless if it is a mobile phone, PDA or camera, security should discreetly walk over to them and ask them to leave the cinema," the memo says.
The measure has been used for blockbuster releases in Australia but it's believed this is the first time a studio has issued a directive to all cinemas.
Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft director of operations Neil Gain said the move indicated how seriously studios took movie piracy.
"It only takes one person to make a copy and then, at the click of a button, a copy of that film can be sold to illegal replicating units who make copies which can be burnt and then sold on to piracy sites around the world," he said.
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First screening is on right now and there is indeed a security guard sitting there enjoying the show, oh and yes, he has his night goggles too.
Seems like a strange way to 'combat piracy'. I've heard there's already a copy on the net so...so much for that. Even if that's not true, it'll be there in a couple of days. You watch.
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Frank Angel
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posted 07-19-2008 02:53 PM
They can specify a minimum per capita. I think it was Disney started that. And yes, Tim, it would seem that the Paramount Concent Decrees would mean that the studios can't dictate admission price, but the studios have skirted around a lot of those dictates with nary a peep from the Justice Department. No theatre or chain has challenged the per capita thing that I've heard about.
But the point -- the tongue-in-cheek point I was making -- was that if indeed all these seemingling ineffective anti-piracy schemes the studios come up with were preventing the incredibly huge and totally speculative losses they tout every so often, those losses would be significently reduced. So how bout passing along some of those savings by cutting the public a break; after all, it was the public that was enlisted in that brilliant "video taping with a cell phone IS AGAINST THE LAW-- and costs the film industry billions of dollars and takes food out of the mouths of technicians, so DO YOUR DUTY AND BE A SNITCH" campaign. And how bout cutting them in on the savings just due to the fact that they had to endure crap codes in the picture and in the sound to prevent million of dollars lost to screen pirates?
And for the theatres, if not in the cutting the ticket price, then how about in the giving better percentages? Yah, that will ever happen.
And again I say, how is it the studios expect the theatre owner to increase man/hours with staff using these night-vision things without compensation? How is it they think they get this for free? Would they ask Technicolor to put extra security details on their prints for free? But they have no problem just assuming that all they need to do is hand the theatre a pair of these goggles and poof, schedules will be rearrange, added responsibilities will be given to staff and it will all be paid for by the theatres. I say, pay the theatres for a "night-vision detail" crew, if they want that extra security, out of the money they save by all that piracy it will stop.
Hmmm, my guess is, they don't want that security detail THAT bad!
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