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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319B http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319B In case anyone is wondering, that's the us federal law. Most St

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319B http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319B In case anyone is wondering, that's the us federal law. Most States have individual laws that change the punishment.

diydsp 13y ago
wow, thanks! Theatre owners can detain any suspected filmers, and can't be held liable for criminal or civil action arising out of it!
- rosser 13y ago
  I wonder who paid for that law...
  - sounds 13y ago
    Logical response from theater-goers: _Never_ go to the theater.
    - 14113 13y ago
      Just pirate your films instead! Oh wait...
  - midas007 13y ago
    Most def not the MPAA.
- yardie 13y ago
  It doesn't look much different than the protections a retail store currently have. They can detain you until the police arrive and they are not liable for criminal or civil liabilities either (doesn't stop people from trying to sue). But in this day and age a good thrashing on twitter and facebook usually ensues.
  - agwa 13y ago
    1. It's equally wrong for retail stores to have that protection. No particular class of business should be entitled to more protection than other types of businesses or ordinary citizens seeking to detain someone who committed a crime against them. I also highly doubt retail stores have a federal law giving them this legal protection. 2. This law doesn't just permit theaters to detain you until the cops arrive; they're permitted to detain you for the sole purpose of questioning you. I think it's extraordinarily problematic for private security forces to be given the power to do that. Such a detention could go on indefinitely, leaving it up to a lawsuit to hash out whether it was "reasonable" or not. If they're just detaining you until the cops arrive, at least the length of detention is upper-bounded by the response time of the cops, and there's no opportunity for shady or coercive questioning techniques.

diydsp 13y ago

wow, thanks! Theatre owners can detain any suspected filmers, and can't be held liable for criminal or civil action arising out of it!

rosser 13y ago
I wonder who paid for that law...
- sounds 13y ago
  Logical response from theater-goers: _Never_ go to the theater.
  - 14113 13y ago
    Just pirate your films instead! Oh wait...
- midas007 13y ago
  Most def not the MPAA.
yardie 13y ago
It doesn't look much different than the protections a retail store currently have. They can detain you until the police arrive and they are not liable for criminal or civil liabilities either (doesn't stop people from trying to sue). But in this day and age a good thrashing on twitter and facebook usually ensues.
- agwa 13y ago
  1. It's equally wrong for retail stores to have that protection. No particular class of business should be entitled to more protection than other types of businesses or ordinary citizens seeking to detain someone who committed a crime against them. I also highly doubt retail stores have a federal law giving them this legal protection. 2. This law doesn't just permit theaters to detain you until the cops arrive; they're permitted to detain you for the sole purpose of questioning you. I think it's extraordinarily problematic for private security forces to be given the power to do that. Such a detention could go on indefinitely, leaving it up to a lawsuit to hash out whether it was "reasonable" or not. If they're just detaining you until the cops arrive, at least the length of detention is upper-bounded by the response time of the cops, and there's no opportunity for shady or coercive questioning techniques.