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MPAA Agent Bob Hope Detains Man For Wearing Google Glass in Ohio Cinema

It was only two weeks ago that we predicted the day would come when people would be wearing Google Glass in cinemas and be able to record an entire movie. That future has already arrived sooner than we expected. Over the weekend of January 18th an un-named man went to see “Jack Ryan: Shadow Re…

Industry Trust Deploys “Battleship” In U.K. Anti-Piracy Campaign

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0QRoGozJlg[/youtube] Universal Pictures has teamed up with the trade group Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness in the United Kingdom to produce an anti-piracy advertisement which incorporates foo…

Studios Are Fighting Movie Piracy On College Campuses

[/caption] It looks as if the MPAA may be spying on college students, or at the very least monitoring their file sharing activity. Last week on CNET’s daily tech news podcast Buzz Out Loud the hosts read an email from a listener named Chris who explained how the MPAA has been leaving notes for…

NATO Responds To ‘Twilight’ Pirate’s Lawsuit

Less than 24-hours after we posted a story on the lawsuit filed against Muvico by a 22-year-old for being arrested for filming inside a movie theatre an email arrived from Patrick Corcoran, the National Association of Theatre Owners’ Director of Media & Research. Corcoran not only provided a sta…

Accused “Twilight” Pirate Sues Movie Theatre

[/caption] Remember back in November of last year when the industry was abuzz about a 22-year-old woman who was arrested and jailed for using a video recorder inside a Chicago movie theatre during her sister’s birthday party? Well, she’s back in the news again. This time Samantha Tumpach…

“Avatar” Pirate Given A Pass Down Under

Here’s a new twist on the old story of camcorder piracy and movie theft. A recent news blip published in Australia’s Herald reported an incident in which movie theatre personnel at a cinema in Glendale spotted a man video taping a showing of “Avatar”. The catch is, the man wa…

India Welcomes “Slumdog” With Protests And Piracy

[/caption] Less than 24-hours after “Slumdog Millionaire” picked up 10 Oscar nominations on Thursday, filmmaker Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches movie about a teenage boy from the slums of Mumbai opened on Friday in India stirring up a bit of resentment and controversy. In fact, rather than being…

MPAA Urges ISPs To Help Fight Piracy

The Motion Picture Association of America has been hinting for some time now that internet service providers should prevent copyrighted material such as movies and televisions shows from being distributed illegally through their high speed broadband networks. Back in July of this year, the MPAA file…