Following the announcement of a fresh anti-piracy drive and new, aggressive legislation, a man has been caught using a camcorder to record the latest ‘Transformers’ movie and is now facing 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

he MPAA claims that New York is a pirate movie haven and with a claimed 43% of all camcorded movies originating from the city, it was just a question of time before Major Bloomberg’s and the MPAA’s anti-piracy campaign - coupled with new legislation - claimed its first scalp.

According to reports, police descended on the American Theater on East Avenue in Parkchester, after warning theater workers in advance that they were about to conduct a sting to arrest a known movie ‘cammer‘ at a sneak preview of the new movie ‘Transformers’.

After waiting until the end of the screening on Monday night, Kalidou Diallo, 48, was surrounded by seven plain clothes officers, arrested and subsequently charged with the new anti-piracy misdemeanor. He had been allegedly filming or ‘camming’ the movie, utilizing a hidden camera and digital recorder.

The manager of the American Theater, Justin Hill, said that the authorities knew that his theater was the source of the ‘cams’. “The movie companies … knew it was coming from our theater,” he said. “We were taking heat for it because we weren’t catching anyone.”

Under the previous law, getting caught meant up to 15 days in jail and $250 fine. The new measures signed in May 1, makes ‘camming’ a misdemeanor offense, which means that Diallo is facing a possible 6 months in jail, accompanied by a $5,000 fine.

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I don't get it. why by a cam'd pirate when there are other (better quality) ways to do so? has anyone bought one of these?

LOL... MPAA and RIAA have go tnothing better to do then raid theaters? I mean c'mon they are wasting more $$ on police enforcement of pirating than they are on border issues and security.

6 months in jail, accompanied by a $5,000 fine.
hell you get less than that for stabing somebody in this country just goes to show where the courts have their alligence.

Follow the money. Bloomburg probably gets huge payouts from the movie industry for every arrest.

Yeah I never really liked CAM downloads anyway.

This is why you leave this kind of thing to the people who know what they're doing...

thats just insane.......... I mean really ..... I guess all the other murderers , rapists and drug dealers have been caught so i guess the cops need to have something to do!!