Mobile Phone Used to Pirate Cinema Movie

An Australian man is facing legal action after he is alleged to have used a mobile phone to record a cinema showing of the new Simpons movie and upload the file to be distributed over the internet. The video file was removed within a few days of being uploaded to the internet, and police raided the home of the 21 year old who is said to have made the recording. 

"Within 72 hours of making and uploading this unauthorized recording, AFACT had tracked it to other streaming sites and P2P systems where it had been illegally downloaded in excess of 110,000 times and in all probability, copied and sold as a pirate DVD all over the world. The speed and spread of illegal copies across the global internet as a result of this camcord copy being made from a mobile phone in a Sydney cinema is staggering." said Adrianne Pecotic, Executive Director of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

Unauthorised recording of films in cinemas is increasing in Australia with police attending seven reported incidents of camcording across three states in the last six weeks, more than half using mobile phones.

Posted to the site on 20th August 2007