In Britain, college graduate Emmanuel Nimley who used his I-Phone to record blockbuster movies, was tried in court.
The 22 year-old graduate would cam-cord the movies, and upload them online. People from all over the world were able to watch them online, or to even burn them illegally onto DVDs.
Arrested while in the middle of filming The Bounty Hunter, he admitted to other offences after he was put under pressure by members of his family.
The Daily Mail, “ground-breaking’ prosecution" as no one has ever been jailed for filming in a cinema and then distributing it on the internet.”
During their first three weeks of their show casting, Nimley recorded The Crazies, Alice in Wonderland and The Green Zone, all illegally of course. On the 17th of September 2010, he was sentenced for six months in prison at the Harrow Crown Court. The judge, John Anderson, said that “it may be suggested in some quarters especially among young people that this is harmless fun and film in the cinema is game fair…It is not. Your action was a deliberate cheat on the film companies and the film industry…Fraudulently making and distribution of copies for whatever purpose and whatever quality has the effect of depriving the film industry of revenue...In current society it’s difficult to imagine an audience wider than the internet having access to such illegal material.
Philanthropist?
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Your dishonesty strikes at the heart of that industry…This was deliberately planned and carefully executed offending which I have no doubt would have continued if you had not been caught…I accept that there has been no fraudulent gain for you and I accept your motivation was for self-glory.”
Nimley would upload the films onto a website named silverscreen.com which was also used by pirates from all over the world. On the 17th of March, he was arrested after he was caught by the manager on CCTV at the Vue cinema in Harrow. When he was spotted, the manager called the police, and the cinema was already under investigation. The prosecutor called James Shepherd, and according to the Daily Mail, had told the court that “Motion Picture Association and the UK’s Federation Against Copyright Theft had spotted Alice in Wonderland on the site due to embedded security code in the footage could detect it was filmed in the Harrow Vue.”
The prosecutor said that “The film itself had been released in the UK on March 5, 2010 the investigation showed it was posted on the internet at 3.31am on March 6. The film had effectively been recorded on the first day of its release.”
James Shepherd said that “It’s estimated in the UK alone the loss to the film industry is approximately half a billion pounds. As far as global loss goes it is very difficult to quantify.
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