The very same entertainment industry that produces film after film after television show after television show ripping the very same Patriot Act that has helped to successfully foil heaven only knows how many terrorist attacks, is now using about as Orwellian a technology as there is to not only detect when their precious product is being pirated but also for market research.

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Torrent Freak reports on what’s going on and where things are headed over in England, but it’s all about protecting Hollywood’s product, isn’t it?:

For most people going to a cinema is a good night out. Only a few realize that they are often subjecting themselves to extreme and privacy invading security measures that most airports could only dream of. Filmgoers are already being carefully watched for suspicious behavior by Big Brother’s cameras, but soon this technology will be upgraded with sophisticated emotion recognition software.

Hindering piracy is priority number one for movie theaters nowadays. In dealing with a tiny minority, theater owners are slowly alienating their customers by employing measures such as metal detectors, night-vision goggles, bag and body searches and audio watermarks. Everyone is treated as a potential pirate. …

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When British actress Charlotte Lewis first came forward to accuse fugitive director Roman Polanski of abusing her in 1983 at a press conference last week, one of the more intriguing statements was made by her attorney Gloria Allred:

“[Ms. Lewis] did present fresh complaint evidence to law enforcement, and it is in their possession.”

The Polanski-loving media didn’t mention this. They prefer a ”He Said, She Said” argument. Upon hearing this, however, my first thought was that a witness would be interesting, though obviously unlikely.

This is me speculating, but in a just-released statement Ms. Lewis might have revealed what that fresh complaint evidence is. And while it’s not a witness to the crime, it is the next best thing: (more…)

In 1983 when Charlotte Lewis says Roman Polanski  “sexually abused me and manipulated me in the worst way,” she was one month into her 16th year.

He was 50.

Charlotte Lewis and Roman Polanski in 1986

Since this story broke yesterday a lot of speculation’s been flying about questioning Ms. Lewis’ willingness to make “Pirates” in 1986 with a man who she says sexually abused her in 1983. The AP put it this way: [emphasis mine throughout]

Los Angeles County prosecutors have met with a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski in his Paris apartment when she was 16 — years before she appeared in one of his movies.

Leave it to the incurious, unskeptical leftist media to attempt to plant that talking point seed in the opening paragraph. Anyone interested in offering a little context would take the time to explain that a production the size of “Pirates,” a debacle so bloated it killed off the genre until “Pirates of the Caribbean” seventeen years later, can easily take three years from start of pre-production to release. You have rehearsals, the building of massive ships, the shoot (which is rumored to have taken nearly a year), and post-production.

This must-read Mail Online interview with Ms. Lewis backs up this fairly obvious scenario. She explains that the abuse occurred when she first met Polanski to try out for her eventual role in the film. In other words, the spin Polanski’s apologists are tossing out – the idea that Ms. Lewis escaped the fugitive rapists clutches only to return willingly for a starring role in “Pirates,” just isn’t that simple.  (more…)

They plunder. They kidnap. They ransom. They steal. They kill. They are destroying the fabric of world civilization.

They are pirates, and piracy must be stopped.

Yes, Hollywood is filled with terrible individuals that must be reigned in.

Sure, I could blame Somalia for the problem, but they are starving. I blame Hollywood for glorifying pirates everywhere.

Therefore, the solution is to crack down on piracy at the source. (more…)

… Bull Crap. Listen, violence freed the slaves, took down the axis of evil and still manages to fix every remote control that I’ve ever owned. More recently, the use of force quickly brought an end to the escapades of a few Somali jackasses. Three shots fired, three men dead… And there was much rejoicing. To those of you still teaching the “violence doesn’t solve problems” myth to your kids… What are you thinking? Does anyone out there truly believe this insane rhetoric?

I find it funny that Hollywood leftists are the ones who’ve been pushing this ideal down our throats with one hand, while simultaneously producing the most brutally vile, “creative content” with the other. Libs love to paint Middle American conservatives as “Gun toting Neo-Cons with a thirst for violence,” yet more often than not, it’s those people who boycott their gratuitous, self-indulgent, crap-fests that they call films. Does anyone here honestly think that “Seung-Hi Choi” went on his Virginia-Tech shooting spree after getting fired up at an NRA rally? His pre-massacre phone-pictures showed him mimicking poses that he’d seen in “Tomb Raider” for crying out loud. Only in the United States could an entity such as Hollywood coin the term “Torture-Porn” for their content one moment, only to condemn a righteous war the next. (more…)