Five Years In Jail For Putting A Movie Online

Hollywood is really paranoid about cell phones and camera phones... After bag and body searches at screenings to avoid piracy, blaming box office bombs on teenagers giving the thumbs down by text message as they walk out of the theater, now, according to Techdirt, the latest Hollywood manifestation is a proposed law that would make it a felony to take a video camera into a movie theater or to put a film up on the internet, with penalties including up to five years in jail.

emily | 1:26 PM | News, Buzz |
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