![]() ![]() In the meantime, the four movies cammed in Liverpool can be added to other incidents recorded elsewhere in 2022.Īt Cineworld Dundee (Scotland) on an unspecified date, a staff member identified a customer camming a movie. Other Camming Incidents in 2022Ĭamming incidents appear to be covered more comprehensively in annual reports, meaning that overall data for 2022 won’t be available for another few months. However, records show that camming ‘incidents’ in UK cinemas are extraordinarily common, yet receive almost no press. This isn’t mentioned by FCPA and we’re still unable to confirm which movies are linked to the case, but the period cited – June to August 2022 – coincides with surprisingly high-quality cam copies suddenly appearing online around mid-June before stopping around mid-August.Ī screenshot from the cam copy of Minions: The Rise of Gruĭouble-whammy events like these aren’t exactly common in the UK, especially given the alleged quality and the obvious threat to the market. Our report published late November provides more detail and last week an FDA/FCPA newsletter dated December 20 ( pdf) confirmed events as reported.Īside from being recorded in the UK, where an intent to distribute copies online can carry a 10-year prison sentence, the copies were notable for another reason – their extraordinary quality. Over the weeks that followed, TorrentFreak was able to link the arrest with an industry report claiming that at least four movies, recorded in two UK cinemas during the summer, had appeared online. Arrest in the UKĮarly October, the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit announced the arrest of a man in Liverpool “in connection with an investigation into film piracy.” The involvement of the Film Content Protection Agency (FCPA), the Film Distributors’ Association anti-piracy group, left little doubt this was related to camming. While camming is clearly an ongoing problem for some countries, enhanced security and tough legislation in the United Kingdom should deter even the most determined pirates. In a report to the USTR in early 2022, the International Intellectual Property Alliance used similar terms more than 130 times when calling out China, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, and other countries for not doing enough to prevent in-cinema recording ( pdf). ![]() The terms camming, camcording, cammer, and other variations are not exclusive to movie piracy circles though those paid to monitor and crack down on pirates use them a lot too. What's more, the performance of Duplex on the Web could suffer significantly if website administrators prevented the crawler from indexing their content.When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. The feature’s support page notes Google used a special user agent to crawl websites as much multiple times per day. At one point, you could also use it to check into flights and track discounts.Īs for the reason why Google is shutting down Duplex on the Web, TechCrunch suggests it may have something to do with the cost of training an AI to parse websites. Google later expanded the feature to protect users against online data breaches. Provided you had your credit card information stored on Chrome, Assistant could take care of all of the busy work of buying film tickets for you. Duplex on the Web gave Assistant the ability to navigate websites on its own. Initially, the feature was designed to help Android users buy movie tickets. Google first announced Duplex on the Web in 2019 as an expansion of its Duplex phone reservation AI. “By the end of this year, we’ll turn down Duplex on the Web and fully focus on making AI advancements to the Duplex voice technology that helps people most every day.” “As we continue to improve the Duplex experience, we’re responding to the feedback we’ve heard from users and developers about how to make it even better,” a Google spokesperson told the outlet. In a support page spotted by TechCrunch, the company notes the service won’t work after the end of 2022. The search giant quietly announced this week it is shutting down Duplex on the Web. Another Google service will soon join the company’s graveyard of apps.
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