Paramount Pictures & Hollywood

Think on this shit-gripper the next time you go and see a big film at the cinema and spend your hard-earned disposable income on your movie ticket...

Major Hollywood film studios are deliberately creating big sound drop-outs on their films, meaning you are not getting to enjoy everything you are paying for.

It's the movie makers latest crappy excuse to try and cut down on piracy. The prints of big films are tagged/coded with these sound drop-outs - known, apparently, as 'audio cap codes' - some of which can occur in major action and dialogue sequences. Hollywood bosses claim that if pirate copies do turn up they can identify which cinema the original recording came from based on where the sound drop-out occurred.

There's a real buzz brewing online about this issue, with many suggesting that if you experience this problem at the cinema you should simply ask for your money back at the box office, based on the fact that the sound quality was sub-standard. Once the cinemas start reporting back to Paramount Pictures (in the case of the Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie) bosses there might start realising they have fucked up.

Personally I've never comprehended the attraction of watching a major movie pirated via the method of taping it on a camera inside a cinema. The picture quality has to be shit and the sound quality even worse, surely? That's what crazy about this... anyone watching a pirated movie isn't going to give a rat's ass about the sound quality, but if I pay upwards to $20 for my ticket at some swanky film theatre I expect to get my money's worth and not have some paranoid twat of a studio head decide that I should be short changed by this kind of shit.

Of course this could all be 'urban legend', or no more than a malicious meme, but it has been noted that even film technicians are claiming its been going on for some time.

Looks like the movie industry is following the music industry's lead by ripping off its customers whilst simultaneously treating everyone like criminals? It would appear to be a class action lawsuit in the making.