http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/a4177e30-e322-43dc-9225-9430e3a29e90?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/a4177e30-e322-43dc-9225-9430e3a29e90#49aa0cef-7021-4225-8110-aedc6f9a5550 No, it's still ridiculous, just as we can't sue people for using public domain stuff that will eventually get RE-SUCKED into copyright by whatever ridiculous, non-public-facing, non-consumer-facing, non-culture-facing law they pass next. Sure, we'll get to a point where we'll be able to capture surprisingly hi-rez stuff on our camera-phone-goggle-codpieces, but that doesn't mean that the person who took a brief clip at the theater should face legal action for it. I'm unclear on the larger picture, but it was probably a mistake (but expedient) to plead guilty to the misdemeanor. It's just a stupid law to begin with, and it would have been helpful to have precedent set against it. 37 states? Good god. Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:34:51 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/a4177e30-e322-43dc-9225-9430e3a29e90#49aa0cef-7021-4225-8110-aedc6f9a5550 Bwana 2007-09-13T09:34:51Z http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/a4177e30-e322-43dc-9225-9430e3a29e90#64dc68e6-5e70-42a7-b67b-5b04f900527b http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/24/worlds_biggest_theat.html "In light of the ridiculous action being taken against the 19-year old who took a 20 second clip of the transformers movie, it seems that maybe some boing boing readers should make a project out of filming the entire transformers movie at regal theaters using only cell phones or digital still cameras and afterwards, editing the film together as seamlessly as possible. This is sheer absurdity but a kick in the pants as well. I'd love to send a version of it to Regal so they see that no 'pirate' would steal a movie that way in order to distribute." Sure, cellphone video-clips are teh suck *today*, but 10 years from now? a world-wide distributed flash-mob on opening day of the movie, where every participant shoots 10 seconds (or whatever the legally-dictated minimum is) will be uploaded, sequenced, jitter-corrected, noise-reduced, color-balanced and seamlessly edited together into the entire film before the ushers can clean the spilled popcorn from the floor. It's not ridiculous, it's next year. Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:53:52 GMT http://boingboing.tribe.net/thread/a4177e30-e322-43dc-9225-9430e3a29e90#64dc68e6-5e70-42a7-b67b-5b04f900527b the Other™ 2007-08-24T20:53:52Z