Easy Way To Copy Movies

Refer to article with the same title, page 12, Nation section of The Star Newspaper dated Saturday 8 July 2006.

Can you possibly imagine, a student filming an entire movie from a camera phone, and within an hour, hundreds of copies would have been distributed? Unfortunately, this is supposedly not a fictitious story found in Mission Impossible but allegedly true, as published in the national newspaper.

However, I find it absolutely hilarious, for a reporter to take all these nonsense seriously, and make it a national agenda. And here's why:

1. It is almost impossible for a camera phone to record moving image for as long as 109 minutes- the total length of the movie. Even a dedicated video camera can only take 1 hour of video.
2. Even if they have enough storage space, the quality would have been totally awesome, no one can actually watch it. Even with a proper video camera, sometimes the quality is bad.
3. It takes more than one hour to actually transfer, burn and distribute the illegally obtained video.

So tell me, which part of the article is not exaggerated? The part where it takes 1 hour to transfer, burn and distribute? Or the part where a camera phone is capable of recording a full length movie which is actually worth watching?

Why are Malaysians looking at the wrong side of things? I do not know if it is fabricated, more like a propaganda, but it is simple logic that the piracy issue in Malaysia is not about a student and his camera phone. The problem lies deep inside the management of the cineplex and cinemas. Most of the movies are probably recorded by their own employees. Just look at the quality of the pirated vidoes taken, they are not taken from a camera phone, but from a bigger, snazzier camera. I am sure the management could have noticed the bigger camera, not just a small camera phone. Think about it.

So Mr. Bernard See, next time if you need to make a report out of nothing, you need to SEE the right (logic) side of things, because Malaysians aren't blind.

I rest my case.