Distribber Fights Pirates by Shooting Audience

I think this is just amazing and weird. This comes from a Hollywood Reporter story about German film critics upset with a policy that their reviews of "War of the Worlds" must be embargoed (or held) until the film's release date:

"The German association also criticized the security measures undertaken at the first press screening of "War of the Worlds" on June 14 in Berlin. For the first time at such a screening, the distributor filmed the audience as an anti-piracy measure."

Wild. Just wild.

We go into a theater to watch stored images. As we do so, someone else is now storing images of us .... to make sure we don't store those images we came to see.

The ways in which our cultures are turning back and in on themselves just boggles my mind.

Implosion.