The first 3D-pirate acquitted Bashny.Net

British court acquitted a student of the University Birmingham City Kyprianou certain Florea (Ciprian Florea), the accused that he intended using a specially made device perform pirate shooting the film "Gravity" in 3D-format.

Cyprian, 28-year-old student of the Faculty of carrier, the day before the planned visit blockbuster procured two high-resolution cameras. Erecting with them a kind of 3D-camera (apparently, it was a box with two holes for the lenses), a young man hanging your device on his chest, went to the theater, where he was detained by security, who confiscated the "camera" and passed it along with a host of police. Thus, Cyprian did not even have time to start shooting first «3D-ekranki».

Nevertheless, he was charged with intent to commit fraud, illegal entry by 3D-film for subsequent distribution, Cyprian, of course, denied saying that he only wanted to shoot your friends on their «3D-camera" and almost happened to be in a movie theater.




«3D-pirate" Cyprian Florea

Despite the opposition of organizing Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), which appeared for the prosecution, the court found Mr. Florea not guilty of fraudulent activities, reasoning similar to the following: a copy of "Gravity", even if it were recorded and posted on the Internet, could serve as a basis for the case of copyright infringement, but not fraud. In FACT insisted that the appearance in a movie theater with a special device for shooting (even such specific), have proof of criminal intent.

Although he Cyprian happy with the way everything turned out, it is worth recalling that does not always end with the prosecution of piracy so rosy: a certain Philip Danks was приговорён to 33 months in prison for illegal entry and further publication on the torrent tracker film "The Fast and the Furious 6».

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Source: geektimes.ru/post/244260/