Metalscape: The Metal Podcast » laptops http://www.metalpodcast.net Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Ban them laptops http://www.metalpodcast.net/2009/10/ban-them-laptops/ http://www.metalpodcast.net/2009/10/ban-them-laptops/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:40:20 +0000 Gogo http://www.metalpodcast.net/2009/10/15/ban-them-laptops/ Cinema chain Cineworld in the UK now has a policy banning anyone from carrying a laptop into a theatre, even if it is not used. The management claims that this is an anti-piracy move on the advice of the Federation Against Copyright Theft, the source of all kinds of dubious anti-piracy statements. When it was pointed out that the laptop had no camera, the management made a temporary exception.

For customers, the message is clear: leave your laptop in the car. For pirates, the message is clear: there is more money to be made slinking around cinema car parks looking for laptop bags.

Mobile phone with a camera? Go right ahead. Laptop in a bag with no powersuply? Get the fuck out of here!

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