Comments on: Police State http://musematic.net/2007/08/05/police-state/ Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM's Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shandie http://musematic.net/2007/08/05/police-state/comment-page-1/#comment-4318 Shandie Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:28:27 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=226#comment-4318 She broke the law. She deserves punishment, but not as severe as was handed to her. The movie industry does lose tons of money each year to pirating. They have every right to charge her to the maximum though, because she did, in fact, break the law. You cannot break a law "just a little bit." And to refer to the incident as something of a 'police state' is simply absurd. Does the author of this article know what a police state is, exactly? She broke the law.
She deserves punishment, but not as severe as was handed to her. The movie industry does lose tons of money each year to pirating. They have every right to charge her to the maximum though, because she did, in fact, break the law. You cannot break a law “just a little bit.” And to refer to the incident as something of a ‘police state’ is simply absurd. Does the author of this article know what a police state is, exactly?

]]> By: Amalyah Keshet http://musematic.net/2007/08/05/police-state/comment-page-1/#comment-3646 Amalyah Keshet Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:19:15 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=226#comment-3646 "Patrick Corcoran, a spokesman for the National Association of Theater Owners, said 104 theater personnel nationwide in the last three years have been awarded about $500 each, in a joint venture between the owners association and the MPAA, for identifying pirates in movie houses." http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/teen-cops-guilt.html “Patrick Corcoran, a spokesman for the National Association of Theater
Owners, said 104 theater personnel nationwide in the last three years
have been awarded about $500 each, in a joint venture between the
owners association and the MPAA, for identifying pirates in movie
houses.”

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/teen-cops-guilt.html

]]> By: Amalyah Keshet http://musematic.net/2007/08/05/police-state/comment-page-1/#comment-3595 Amalyah Keshet Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:26:35 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=226#comment-3595 Free Culture @ NYU is joining the call for a chain wide boycott of Regal Cinemas over their draconian punishment of a 19 year-old girl caught taping 20 seconds of the Transformers film. We demand that Regal Cinemas drop all charges against Jhannet Sejas, and that the entertainment group issue a full apology to the teen. http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2007/08/08/boycott-regal-cinemas/ Free Culture @ NYU is joining the call for a chain wide boycott of Regal Cinemas over their draconian punishment of a 19 year-old girl caught taping 20 seconds of the Transformers film. We demand that Regal Cinemas drop all charges against Jhannet Sejas, and that the entertainment group issue a full apology to the teen.

http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2007/08/08/boycott-regal-cinemas/

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