Arrgh...Movie pirates nabbed with night-vision goggles

Night-vision goggles: 100 percent more effective at catching pirates than X-Ray Specs.

(Credit: Fakecrap.com)

You'd think catching movie pirates would be as easy as preventing anyone with a camcorder from entering a movie theater. Or throwing a net over Johnny Depp's house.

Instead, Malaysian theater workers are employing a high-tech strategy. According to a Reuters report, the Motion Picture Association is training Malaysian theater workers to strap on night-vision goggles to catch pirates in the act of filming.

And it's working. In the past two months, 17 illegal movie-tapers have been caught by begoggled Malaysian ushers.

Could New York City be the next test bed for the night-vision goggle probe? According to a Motion Picture Association of America study, New York accounts for 43 percent of all in-theater movie piracy in the U.S., as well as 20 percent of worldwide DVD piracy.

[Antemeridian]

I've seen this

My girlfriend and I had actually won free tickets to an advance screening of 300. For a significant portion of the movie, you could see one of the two security people at the front of the theather slowly scanning the audience with night vision goggles. And this was in Canada.