No doubt pour encouragez les otres.

A teenage girl faces a $2500 fine and up to a year in jail for allegedly using her digital camera to record a 20-second snippet of the climax of popular movie Transformers "to show her brother."

Quoting the article:
"Movie pirating cost the industry $18.2 billion worldwide in 2005, the most recent figures available, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. Copying a movie from a theater is a felony under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005. Several states also have their own anti-piracy laws, including Virginia.

"It's happening all over, and there's been a rash of camcording in the Washington area of late," said Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

Kendrick Macdowell, general counsel for the National Association of Theatre Owners, said the industry is stepping up efforts to clamp down on movie pirating.

"We cannot educate theater managers to be judges and juries in what is acceptable," he said. "Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing."

But others say not every case has to go to court.

"I've heard of people's devices being confiscated, or them being kicked out of the theater," said Jason Schultz, a staff lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which specializes in digital rights issues. "This is the first criminal arrest for someone filming for personal use that I know of."

Sejas' attorney, Sandy Hughes, said she hopes she can resolve the case before it goes to trial Aug. 21. "

Original Link:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--moviepiracy0802aug02,0,5410982.story

So, what should we make of those Xombees who consider posting links to pirated movies a writing career and who profit from said pirating? Will this get to the point that the government/MPAA shuts down websites that allow such content or will they go farther up the food chain? Only time will tell.