Record movie for jail time and $1,000 fine

New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo is backing a law that will make recording a movie a misdemeanor for first-time offenders. Doing so could get you up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Doing it again could turn it into a felony, with even higher penalties. Cuomo noted 140,000 jobs are lost because of piracy annually and as stated many times before by the MPAA, it cost the film industry over $6 billion in 2005.

If you get caught recording a movie now, it’s equal to a misdemeanor, like getting a parking ticket. But this new bill is not here to stop the average kid from recording a movie. “This is modern-day organized crime,” Cuomo said. “The wide distribution of pirated films originating from New York costs our state vital economic resources, including thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue.“