Wal-Mart accused of 'piracy'

[LiviaOlivia]

Wal-Mart accused of 'piracy'
Staff and agencies
Thursday November 3, 2005
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1607746,00.html

Robert Greenwald's new documentary has not even opened but fur is already flying: at a New York screening of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price two days ago, a consultant for the American retailing behemoth was accused of trying to secretly record the film and ejected from the cinema.

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Greenwald, whose previous films include the anti-Fox News polemic Outfoxed and Uncovered: The Iraq War, told the New York Times that he spotted Wal-Mart consultant John Marino pointing his mobile phone at the screen minutes after the film rolled. After a confrontation in the lobby, Greenwald threw Marino out.

Not only that, the film's distributor is reportedly considering filing charges against Wal-Mart and the consultant for attempted piracy.

In its defence, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mia Masten said that she and two consultants had bought tickets to the screening to get advance warning on how to "correct" the story being told by the film. She claimed that Marino was using his mobile to call her because she was running late. "Why would we record it?" she said. "We bought tickets."

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:rofl:

Take the bastards to court.

[truthisfreedom]

1. funny. i wonder if they got the phone.

[WildClarySage]

2. So it's actually even worse than piracy-

the bastards don't have the decency to refrain from using cell phones in the theater!

[Mithras61]

3. What an increibly stupid thing for her to say...

"Why would we record it?" she said. "We bought tickets."

Defnitely one of the dumber things I've heard this week, and this week has been pretty full of dumb things. Could it possbly have been an attempt to record the film so that they could dispute the film claim by claim? Or even so that they can take "quotes" out of context r <gasp> even distort them?

[tularetom]

4. I'll be happy when bush is gone

I'll be happy when cheney rove rice and rumsfeld are sitting their asses in prison. I'll be happy when I no longer have to see ahnulds apelike face on my TV screen.

But I'll really be happy when the tumbleweeds are blowing through the empty shell of what used to be our local wally world.