Everyone must assume that only extraordinary conditions merit surveillance. The requisite argument must not be, ‘Why do you not want to wear the badge?’ The requisite argument must be ‘Why do you want me to wear it?’ We must demand that the burden of proof is on the watcher, not the watched.
Source: The Last Link

Yesterday, my family and I watched the new X-Men Origins:Wolverine movie. I disagree with the critics…we enjoyed the movie, albeit except for some language.

As I bought the tickets, the ticket person asked me, “Want to earn 20 extra points for your cinema-card?”
“Sure, what’s involved?”
“Just take this and use when appropriate.” As I took the device from her hand, a sense of unreality slipped over me. My wife and children asked, “What is that?”
“It’s a way to report problems. How clever of them.”

Given recent press about video theft….

Gerardo Arellano and his wife, Maribel Fernandez, both 32, were arrested after police officers found him with the camera balanced on his leg during a showing in South Barrington of the new Miley Cyrus movie, the weekend’s top money maker, officials said. Arellano was charged with trying to make an illegal copy of the film, authorities said.
Source: Chicago Tribune

…it’s not surprising that these devices are being used. And while it’s nice to be able to report folks who are causing problems in a movie, or if there are sound/picture issues, I was surprised to be given a technology that makes that easier. Has anyone else encountered it?

Fortunately, during the movie, I encountered no one recording the movie for illegal distribution…although I’d once seen someone filming a movie, no one was present…perhaps because the movie had already been leaked. At least, the law is catching up to The Pirate Bay….

The Pirate Bay has been involved in a number of lawsuits, both as the plaintiff and as the defendant. On April 17, 2009 Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million SEK (app. 3,620,000 USD; 2,385,000 GBP; or 2,684,000 euro), after a trial of nine days. The defendants will appeal against the verdict, and the website has been unaffected.^[3]

On 31 May 2006, the website’s servers, located in Stockholm, were raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days.^[4] According to the Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is “one of the world’s largest facilitators of illegal downloading”, and “the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright—or pro-piracy—movement”.^[5] On 15 November 2008, The Pirate Bay announced that it had reached over 25 million unique peers. The Pirate Bay has about 3,500,000 registered users, however registration is not necessary to download non-pornographic torrents.^{[6]
Source: Wikipedia}

If asked, will you too be a movie spy?

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