Glasgow cammer not thrown in slammer
Rob rich, give to poor? Robin Hood pirate nets community service
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A 25-year-old man has followed in the footsteps of Harrow pirate Emmanuel Nimley after being convicted of using his phone to illegally record movies in a Glasgow cinema.
The conviction is said to be the first of its kind in Scotland, after Christopher Clarke of Keppochhill Road, Sighthill, pleaded guilty on 2 June to a charge under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
He was ordered at the Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday to complete 160 hours of community service.
Police, Cineworld, and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) teamed up to catch Clarke.
FACT said its investigators discovered that Clarke had recorded the entire Robin Hood movie on 12 May 2010 during a press screening of the Ridley Scott film.
The court heard that Clarke had previously uploaded to the internet five other movies he had illegally recorded in cinemas.
In October of last year, then 22-year-old Lincoln Road, Harrow-based Nimley, who had been thrown in jail for six months for fraudulently filming Hollywood films at a Vue cinema, saw his sentence successfully quashed on appeal to a 12-month community order.
The North West Londoner was told to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work during that period.
As we reported at the time, there have been recent successful court actions against the recordings of films in Blighty cinemas, with prosecutors citing the Fraud Act. Nimley’s sentence was seen as a big win for FACT.
However, no jail term was secured against the Harrow pirate, following appeal. Meanwhile, Clarke received only 160 hours of community service.
The Cinema Exhibitors' Association and other flick-industry bodies have long complained that the UK government lags behind Europe and the US because there’s no specific legislation that can be used in a charge such as the one against Nimley or Clarke. ®
COMMENTS
i don't get it either
what's even harder to understand is why anyone would waste 2 hours of their life watching shit like that robin hood film.
paris icon because her films are worth watching, even the cam copy knock-offs.
No, no, no, you don't get it.
The difference between watching it on a huge screen in high resolution, with huge speakers, and watching a PhoneCam version on your 14" monitor and pissy PC speakers is: Eighteen bucks Australian (or whatever your current rate and currency is in your town).
That's it. They only care if they don't get their cash if you watch it at home.
Once you're in the cinema, there's no backsies.
They don't care about the boofhead hairstyle of the person sitting in front is blocking your view.
You've already paid.
They don't care the moron behind you is continually comentating on the film.
You've already paid.
They don't care the idiot out the front has their cellphone going off, and answers the urgent call that one of their idiot friends bought a shocking green dress, and they need to hold an intervention for her.
Because you've already paid.
They don't care you've wasted an hour and a half of your life you're NEVER getting back.
You've already paid.
Good thing they can't stop you from telling your mates not to bother seeing it (*).
(*) Said mates will instead wait for the DVD rip and watch that. They'll still wonder if they'll ever get that hour and a half of their lives back, but let's hope their $18 in their pocket at least makes them feel a little better...
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