Movie pirates nabbed with night-vision goggles
Movie pirates nabbed with night-vision goggles: You'd think catching movie pirates would be as easy as preventing anyone with a camcorder from entering a movie theater. Or throwing a net over Johnny Depp's house.
Instead, Malaysian theater workers are employing a higher-tech strategy. According to a Reuters report, the Motion Picture Association is training Malaysian theater workers to strap on night-vision goggles to catch pirates in the act of filming.
And it's working. In the past two months, 17 illegal movie-tapers have been caught by begoggled Malaysian ushers.
Could New York City be the next testbed for the night-vision goggle probe?
(Read Original Article - Via CNET News.com - Business Tech.)
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