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ray_slup:
20 years ago they had ushers
now we have people's ring tones playing usher
now that's progress
ChadTower:
shmokes is right, sadly... first time something happens in one of those theaters and someone can't make a phone call they will sue the company. I'll be surprised if they don't get proactively sued by the cell phone providers themselves or by a privacy rights group.
Collecting the cell phones ahead of time also seems like an invasion of privacy class action waiting to happen. You know some employee will be going through all the phones during the movie looking for personal info. Can you imagine the size of the lawsuit if some 15 year old girl's sexting photos get onto the net because a theater employee found them during the movie?
patrickl:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 15, 2009, 10:41:03 am ---
shmokes is right, sadly... first time something happens in one of those theaters and someone can't make a phone call they will sue the company. I'll be surprised if they don't get proactively sued by the cell phone providers themselves or by a privacy rights group.
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Wouldn't a warning sign be enough? Theaters show clips before the movie reminding you to switch your phone off. Just make it say that the phones don't work in the room, so go outside to get help or call for help. Hang up a wired phone for all I care.
Just like in hospitals (in the intensive care areas).
--- Quote ---Collecting the cell phones ahead of time also seems like an invasion of privacy class action waiting to happen. You know some employee will be going through all the phones during the movie looking for personal info. Can you imagine the size of the lawsuit if some 15 year old girl's sexting photos get onto the net because a theater employee found them during the movie?
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Yeah, I really hope they don't make a habit of that. If they had warned me upfront I would simply not have brought my phone (in fact I didn't bring a phone, but my GF did).
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: patrickl on May 15, 2009, 12:17:39 pm ---Wouldn't a warning sign be enough? Theaters show clips before the movie reminding you to switch your phone off. Just make it say that the phones don't work in the room, so go outside to get help or call for help. Hang up a wired phone for all I care.
Just like in hospitals (in the intensive care areas).
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Well now you're asking about the difference between bringing a lawsuit and winning a lawsuit. The lawsuit decides what is enough.
I doubt you can compare it to hospitals. There are life support devices in there potentially affected by the phones. No such imminent problem exists in a movie theater.
Man, the info theft potential on a lot of peoples' phones is incredible. Extend it out to Crackberries... now you have a full inbox, personal or corporate, as well as everything you could need for identity theft. I'm surprised people would just willingly give their phones to some teenager with a cardboard box.
saint:
There's no way in Hades I'd have surrendered my phone to them. And if they hadn't posted a sign out front before I bought my tickets that they were doing it, I'd have 1) ignored them and walked in with my phone, and if they tried to stop me 2) made a big fuss with the management, demanded a refund, and made a general ass of myself.
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