Actually, it would be funny if he had set up his google glass to stream the feed to his local network, and they picked it up and decided he was stealing the movie. But I doubt that.
I will say that I searched for this story in any real newspaper, and all I could find were references to blogs, tech gadget sites, and conspiracy sites.
Here is a typical paragraph, details are different, suggesting a story that is "evolving" like phone tag:
Outside the theater, this poor Google Glass Explorer is surrounded by as many as ten cops, and found himself being questioned for 3 hours. It seems that the Federal Agents were afraid that this guy was illegally filming the movie wearing Google Glass.While I do not live in Ohio, I have watched movies in the Easton Theater in Columbus Ohio, where this happened.
On the other hand, one story had this piece of information, which might suggest why there would have been police to question the man:
Afterward, some information came out that hinted that some pirating had been going on in the past in that particular theater, and with Jack Ryan considered to be a film at risk to be illegally duplicated, there were undercover agents present at that particular screening.
Last thing -- how do we KNOW the guy wasn't recording? That is one of the features of google glass, he could even have been live-streaming.
I went to a concert recently where photography was allowed, but not video. My daughter takes thousands of pictures, she can hold her shutter release and take dozens. And at some point a theater employee came to her to ask if she was shooting video, since she was aiming the camera for so long.
Did he video the interrogations?
These guys should instead be storming into the White House asking Obama, “who do you know”, “who do you really work for”, “who are these dangerous far left and muslim radicals you’re so closely associated with”, “where were you born”, etc, etc.
LAst thing.
I checked several local columbus news outlets, searching for references to the AMC theater or google glass. I found nothing in any local news outlet about this story.
I would think that a person being detained at your local theater for google glass would be a big news story.
All of these local outlets had several stories about the woman in California who was arrested for wearing google glasses while driving, so they clearly thought that google glass stories were interesting.
On the other hand, google glasses sure look like they are going to film what they are looking at, so I could see a theater questioning someone for wearing it.
Let's see:
The fact that he went to see this movie, which portrays Christians as the terrorists, proves that he’s not too smart to begin with:)
Gestapo tactics. Designed to shake a person up and get him to say something that can be used against him.
Yes.
Most people are no match for that kind of interrogation.
Feds respond to a movie theater for a camera?
Sounds fishy.
AMC has interrogation rooms now?
I call BS on this whole story.
Interesting to see AMC designs interrogation rooms into their cinema floor plans. I wonder how often they are used.
I lived and worked in Hollywood for several years. Practically everyone knows someone who works in the industry, and copies of movies are always floating around before they even hit the theaters. Thousands of studio employees all bring them home, they make copies for all their friends and relatives and neighbors... everyone has them. And they’re good copies too... not some crap recorded in a theater by some amateur.