There's a company that claims to be able to stop this with some peculiar 
watermarking techniques that destroy the copy from the cinema screen to 
the video camera. Now owned by Dolby:

http://www.cinea.com/

Alden Hart

Tony Smith wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I have a vision of future pirates pointing a video camera 
>>>       
>> at their HD plasma TVs...
>>
>> Not as daft as it sounds!
>>
>> There have been pirate DVDs in the past which were of films 
>> newly-released in cinemas, not yet on DVD, where the bottom 
>> of the frame had the tops of peoples' heads in it!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Howard Winter
>>     
>
>
> There was even a Seinfeld episode on that.  :)
>
> I wonder how good a HD plasma screencap is...
>
> I remember going to a video duplicator once.  They had a room stuffed with
> as many VCRs as they could fit in there.  They hit play on the master VCR,
> and then waved a remote around pressing the Record button.
>
> No doubt you're familiar with the 'clunk rattle churn whirr clunk' noise a
> VCR makes.  Rather impressive when a whole room full of VCRs does it!  DVD
> burners are much quieter.
>
> Tony
>
>   

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