It’s probably the beginning of the apocalypse or something, but Australia is actually starting to get things before the United States. Last week it was the iPhone 3G, and this week it’s the new Batman movie – The Dark Knight is in Australian Cinemas today, but not hitting the US until Friday. This almost makes up for Disney delaying Wall-E by 3 months in Australia. Almost.
In any case, because of the exciting Australian exclusive, Village Roadshow are cranking up the piracy paranoia prevention, and issuing staff at workers at cinemas nationwide with night-vision goggles, according to News.com.au. That’s right, the same guys that will be picking up your empty popcorn boxes will also be armed with state of the art military tech to stop you from recording a copy of the film for YouTube.
If you do decide to risk it and are caught, expect to be silently shot in the back of the head ejected from the cinema post haste.
Matt
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 11:11 AMIt’s true. The cinema i work at received theirs yesterday. Except, we didnt receive goggles but a night-vision ‘scope’.
Several of the staff are now tempted to start laserforce-esque games in darkened cinemas.
kjd
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 8:08 PMWe were supposed to have a security guard with night vision at the cinema I work at and the guard nor the night vision turned up!!! bit of paranoia if you ask me!
tom
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 9:55 PMWhat was funny was the comments on a news site, where a bunch of idiots had got the idea that the night vision goggles were for the audience, and that the film was somehow shown in a way that would only show up through the goggles. A number of people said `I’ll go to see it just for the goggles alone’ or `No wonder movie tickets are so expensive with them giving away hardware like that’. Hilarity.