Although the imagery of the article from which this post takes it’s title, is
hilarious; turn our movie theatres into war zones, with metal detectors,
pat-downs, and night-vision goggles, while security at our schools and
universities remains lax, I believe that despite the movie industry’s use
of James Bond-esque technology, this may not be the best way to combat
piracy.

First, as fast as the movie industry and its hired techno-goons develop
new ways to combat pirates who have master handycam technology, pirates
will come up with ways around it. One low-tech solution would be to go so
far as to travel to another movie theatre. I, personally, have never been
run through a metal detector, strip-searched, or run through an infrared
scan (that I know of) at a movie theatre. I am not offering to tape
movies myself; I neither own a camcorder nor have the steady hands and
artistic vision required to pirate a movie. This leads me to suspect that
pirates could very effectively continue to tape movies by going from
theatre to theatre, eventually forcing the industry to give up hope; I
doubt their business model can support the kind of technology and
man-power needed to police every theatre in the land.

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