Google Glasses rustling MPAA jimmies

[Xantavia]

Incident according to detainee

From NBC news

A Google Glass user in Ohio has run into an unexpected consequence of wearing a camera on your face at all times: Movie theaters might suspect you of piracy. Homeland Security agents pulled the man from the movie and interviewed him aggressively, though no charges ended up being filed. But is it really a surprise?

Have to say I have mixed feelings on this. Not sure how much of the guys account is accurate vs. shaken memories and/or exaggeration. Working at a theatre, I'm aware of what kind of dicks the MPAA seem to be on their anti-piracy crusade. For some reason they still blame theatre employees and camcorders and not the screening prints they send to reviewers. But at the same time, who would bring a recording device to a movie theatre and think it would be O.K. to just say it was turned off.

I'm not familiar with google glasses and if the short recording times are accurate. I almost see people with access now trying to push boundaries or even hope for a visit from homeland security looking for a payoff.

[Clash Perez]

What does someone recording a movie in a movie theater have to do with the security of the homeland?

[Silenka]

No shit, is movie piracy such srs biz that we gotta get homeland security up in? Then again I doubt they have that much to do nowadays.
Actually this happened about a stone's throw away from me though, interesting.

The agents according to the victim's account sound too dumb for words though. How do people like that get jobs like- know what, nevermind.

[hey]

But at the same time, who would bring a recording device to a movie theatre and think it would be O.K. to just say it was turned off.

You don't bring your cellphone to the movie theater?

edit: and now that i've read it, i suggest you do also if you want an answer to that. It would have been kind of hard for him to watch the movie without it.

[bungiefan]

The take I heard on it was that his Google Glass had prescription lenses, so they may have been his main pair.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/...ass-moviegoer/

[notorious bum]

Story sounds bogus. From beginning to the end.

[Meresgi]

Homeland security? Right there i'm not believing the story...but who the fuck knows honestly with how things go down here nowadays. That just seems kind of overboard though. Was he pirating movies to sell over in the middle east or something?

[Waraji]

Read this a couple of days, original article had "Feds" didn't mention if they were Homeland Security at the time. I would think there is a certain sub-task force in charge of these things...(think).

Not sure what to think of this, half of me says guy was an idiot for wearing them in there, other half is me thinking of the future and this wearable technology trend.

[Salodin]

Homeland security is the division that handles this, not too different from how the secret service also handles financial crimes as well as protection.

The story is real.

[Serra]

Yeah, I can't remember the name (or the abbreviation) but it used to be another agency that got absorbed by DHS.

And yeah, the guy says he had has prescriptions in them (which I didn't know you could do, but is awesome), so they were essentially his main glasses. I get the "don't bring a recording device to a movie" stuff, but if it's his main pair of glasses, I'm assuming he wears them everywhere and it's not a conscious decision.

[Restrat]

It's a pretty conscious decision to make google glass your only pair of glasses

[zoobernut]

Terrible low quality, reduced record time, the difficulty of keeping your head perfectly still for the entire movie. This whole thing is retarded. There is a reason why cell phones don't pose much of a threat to recording a movie and neither does google glass.

[NynJa]

So mr homeland security somehow knew that google glass is a "recording instrument", yet didnt know of its cost nor its inability to record 90 minutes?

[quannum]

precedent + intimidation

[Serra]

So mr homeland security somehow knew that google glass is a "recording instrument", yet didnt know of its cost nor its inability to record 90 minutes?

I think a lot of people don't know that it couldn't record a full movie.

[hey]

So mr homeland security somehow knew that google glass is a "recording instrument", yet didnt know of its cost nor its inability to record 90 minutes?

It seemed to me like he didn't know it was google glass specifically, and probably thought it was a custom thing made just to record movies.

[Meresgi]

I think a lot of people don't know that it couldn't record a full movie.

I think a lot of people don't care....because google glasses are stupid as fuck.

It seemed to me like he didn't know it was google glass specifically, and probably thought it was a custom thing made just to record movies.

Gotta agree, probably thought he built up some sort of movie spyin camura himself...because we all love watching those shitty ass cam versions of our movies from torrents...and don't wait for screeners or official releases. I don't think there's ever been a movie out that I really wanted to see...but was going to pirate it...and just had to watch the handheld vids of it. Usually i'll just go see it in a theater if I want to that badly.

[hey]

I don't think there's ever been a movie out that I really wanted to see...but was going to pirate it...and just had to watch the handheld vids of it.

Eh, some of them are pretty decent quality, recorded with a tripod and everything.

[Meresgi]

Eh, some of them are pretty decent quality, recorded with a tripod and everything.

Sound quality is what always gets me on them even if the image is good. Since the theater is so fucking loud there's always a little feedback on the ones i've seen. Granted i've watched maybe 1 or 2 in the past 5 years so i'm sure there are good ones up there by competent uploaders.

[Stromgarde]

I read a story a while back about pirates using hearing-impared FM broadcast signals in order to get clean audio for their rips. I don't think it's a commonly offered service however.