Man Gets 21 Months in Prison for Camcording Films in Theaters

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 29, 2008 - 9:10am.

San Francisco - A man who pleaded guilty to camcording the films "28 Weeks Later" and "Enchanted" last year in a District of Columbia movie theater has been sentenced to 21 months in prison, Wired.com reports.

Michael Dwayne Logan pleaded guilty to charges under the 2005 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which made it a felony to bring a camcorder into a movie theater and record movies for piracy purposes.

Logan, whom the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) believes recorded as many as 100 movies in theaters, admitted to producing DVDs of his recordings that he intended to sell.

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Related Links:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/theater-movie-p.html

http://www.mpaa.org

tags: Law | Piracy | Movies | MPAA | Copyright |

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