This is taking the definition of copyright piracy to ridiculous extremes. Mobile phones will be temporarily confiscated during movie screenings at this years Edinburgh Film Festival in “a crackdown on movie piracy”. The concerns have been raised because of next-generation mobile phone cameras, which can take film clips of almost three minutes, as well as still pictures. While they could not be used to pirate an entire film, the devices would allow parts of the latest blockbusters to be shown on-line months before they were due out in cinemas on general release, as well as using movie images for unauthorised purposes. [MoCoNews]