That was the headline from an article I read this evening over at TorrentFreak.com.  It never ceases to amaze me just how low people will go.  Don't get your panties in a bunch, this is NOT an anti-piracy rant.  Instead, it is a rant about idiots.

Imagine for just a moment that you are interested in seeing The Dark Night (not that tough to imagine for many of you).  Now stop and think about why it is you want to see it.  Likely you will come up with an answer that is something like - great plot, awesome special effects, big names, big fan.  The list could go on for a while.  The trick is to now think about the sound and video quality of the movie after it is recorded with a handled camcorder in a dark theatre.  It's going to suck.

Case in point, only an idiot would put himself at that must risk to film such a movie.  So much quality is lost.  I totally get the DVDrip guys.  They rip a DVD quality video, so that any user gets the same experience with the pirated video as they would with the actual DVD.  Screeners is another one that I kinda get.  You take a movie like the Dark Night, that a tonne of people want to see, and make the DVD screener available and you are going to be worth gold.  See a screener is a DVD quality video that is somehow marked and made available for award show review.  Could be the Academy Awards or some other variant.  The video is usually marked with an annoying message scrolling across the bottom of the screen, or sections of the movie become black and white for a few minutes at a time.  Again, these make sense because they only have limited quality reduction.

I ask all of you out there that are planning to take your camcorder to the movies to just stop and think about it.  All you are doing is hurting the bandwidth for good downloads and other Internet traffic with your horrid and un-watchable video.  If you make the choice to proceed, I hope you suffer the same fate as the guy who tried to film The Dark Night.  They should throw you in prison, not for pirating, but of simply being that stupid.