Oct 16 2009
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“ He and his laptop were eventually allowed in to see the film, after convincing the cinema’s child-faced manager that the Vaio didn’t actually have a camera in it. In his blog, Jeremy adds: “I often pop in to the movies after work, so I often have the laptop with me and I wanted to check that this was definitely out from now on. He said after advice from FACT, the Federation Against Copyright Theft, Cineworld had brought in the new guidelines.” “I asked if it would be OK to take my mobile phone into the film as that does have the capacity to record movies. He asked if I was planning to use it for that purpose. I said no. He said it would be all right then. Not the most rigorous interrogation and one that a determined bootlegger probably could have passed.
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So laptops without cameras are banned, but mobile phones with video recording devices are allowed…?
Barmy new ‘no laptops allowed’ rule from Cineworld | BitterWallet
