Cam rip

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As cam Rip also camrip (or just Cam ) is referred to in the Warez scene illegal recording of a movie , with the aid of a commercially available camcorder or video phones in a cinema was added. A cam rip is often mistakenly called a screener .

The devices are modified for recording in the cinema. Telltale light-emitting diodes and lettering are stuck over or removed. The quality of this type of recording ranges from poor to acceptable. The recording is usually milky, noisy or too dark, and heads of other cinema-goers can occasionally be seen in silhouettes . Shake caused by moving the camcorder is less noticeable, but the sound quality is usually poor, for example, as external noises such as laughing or talking of the cinema-goers can be heard. Often there is also a monotonous noise in the background and the sound appears dull. It is the worst of all recording types, but it is usually the first to appear on the Internet. The next better type of recording isTelesync .

Countermeasures

With metal detectors or random samples of bags and rucksacks, some cinema operators try to find the cameras before entering the cinema. Even with night vision devices , attempts are made to discover the recording devices during the performance, although in Germany the use in the cinema hall must be announced to the audience beforehand. In the meantime, there are technical means that are supposed to detect the cameras while filming in the cinema or to make filming impossible. Here z. B. the CCD sensors of the devices blinded by light beams. With the help of markings in the picture and sound of cinema films, IT forensics can later narrow down the cinemas in which the film was filmed, even for camrip copies that appeared on the Internet. By adding watermarks to the sound of the film, the position of the camcorder can be determined with an accuracy of up to 44 centimeters.

The filming is legally prosecuted by the collecting societies such as the Motion Picture Association of America or the Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements . For example, in the United States, a man was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for demonstrably filmed the films 28 Weeks Later and Enchanted . In another case in the USA the sentence of 7 years imprisonment was imposed, whereby according to the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 the convict would have to expect 10 years, since this law alone makes carrying a camera in the cinema a criminal offense, since it is considered to be a Attempt to make an audiovisual recording is considered . In Germany, a camrip is punishable under Section 106 of the Copyright Act .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c “PirateEye” recognizes camcorders and video cell phones in cinemas , from November 10, 2004
  2. ↑ a b c d Spiegel Online: Filming in the cinema: Pirate copier caught in the act , from July 26, 2013
  3. ↑ Glossary on no-copy.org
  4. ↑ Universum Kino in Backnang: House rules
  5. ↑ Use of night vision devices to prevent illegal filming in the cinema ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated March 14, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvtechnologie.de
  6. ↑ Spiegel Online: Hunt for pirates: cinema viewers must be informed about night vision devices from October 1, 2009
  7. ↑ Heise: HP develops film protection for cinemas , from August 25, 2005
  8. ↑ ZDNet: Targeted beam of light to prevent filming in the cinema by Martin Fiutak, from June 22, 2006.
  9. ↑ Golem.de: Watermarks in the film sound are supposed to locate copiers , position of a camcorder in the cinema hall can be determined, by Nico Ernst of March 9, 2009
  10. ↑ a b Winfuture: USA: Long prison sentence for filming in the cinema from October 31, 2008
  11. ↑ GVU files a criminal complaint against cinema filmmakers in Bremen - 14 police officers observed the illegal recording of “Die Superbullen” on January 21, 2011
  12. ↑ Winfuture: USA: 7 years imprisonment for filming movies from December 5, 2006