Edinburgh Film Festival bans cellphones — to stop piracy
If you’re planning on going to this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, you may as well leave your cellphone at home. The festival’s organizers have instituted a ban on cellphones, and will confiscate them from anyone who brings them to the theater. While we’re as annoyed as you are when moviegoers yak on the phone during a film, that’s actually not the motivation behind the ban. Seems the Edinburgh edict is designed as an anti-piracy measure; they’re afraid 3G cameraphone-toting pirates will grab footage from the screen and release it into the wild. Sounds fairly ridiculous to us — though we have to admit that the quality of some of the bootleg films we’ve seen sold on the streets of New York isn’t much better than what you’d get with a cameraphone.
[Via MoCoNews]
posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2005 01:25:00 PM
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