You can record a 3-D movie with a camcorder. A $5.00 polarizing filter is all it takes. Welcome those films back to the 2-D world of the internet.

Tim, Worcester,

I'd love to see more 3D films, but its not a panacea for piracy prevention - a polarizing filter over a pirate's camera lens would provide a clear 2D view. It would be the same view you get if you close one eye while watching a 3D film (notice we're still calling it "film" even though the majority will be distributed on electronic media!).

More effort would be needed to copy both (left and right) images and keep them in sync for a 3D copy. In order to discourage all but the most well-equipped pirates, the market would need to agree on a 3D video format for the home releases. That would dampen the demand for 2D copies and would be a welcome advance in the home theatre experience.

Rick, Berrien County, Michigan

And all of those people who have poor eyesight in 1 eye... hope they'll do non-3D showings too.

Ian Hopgood, London, UK

I won't be going to see 3-D movies.Hollywood can take that to the bank.

ron, toronto,

"You cannot record a 3-D film off a movie screen..." Err, well, no, not into 3-D. But you could easily record a 2-D copy of it using the polarising glasses (helpfully provided on-site, presumably).

And of course when the 3-D version is released to buy, it will be as easy to copy as any other DVD.

How much longer will the studios waste their money on futile attempts to restrict the distribution of information?

Mark Crebbin, Ballamodha, Isle of Man

You morons, there will be clip on polarized "shades" that you can clip to your regular eyeglasses just like you can purchase clip on sun shades. They've been around for years.

Not only that, you'll also probably be able to purchase your prescription in a polarized format just for watching 3-D movies.

Do you have any idea what a polarized lens even is???

george, Flowery Branch, Flowery Branch, GA

Simon from Sweden espouses the popular view, that piracy is not really a crime because he is only making electronic copies which cost almost nothing to make and therefore the companies that produce and distribute them are making immoral earnings by charging money for these copies.

Unfortunately, this is an ill-informed and naive view. This is not a war between 'the people' and 'the corporations'! You have been watching too much science fiction.

Maybe one day you should try creating some original creative work yourself, and you will see the extraordinary work that goes into even the simplest thing. According to Simon's view, it seems you should buy a movie once and thereafter all copies are free? In that case your next legal DVD will cost you something like 100 million dollars.

I fully support all efforts to eliminate piracy, it is a particularly insidious crime, born out of ignorance.

Mike Adams, Madrid, Spain

If technology can make a 3-D movie, technology will be able to copy it. The only thing is, now the pirates will be able to charge more becasue they're offering an "enchanced experience"

Simon Cusritor, London,

I think Simon Rosenqvist should have his own ideas rather than steal others'. It's very easy to say that the things I want are common property and un-stealable. Just because it's difficult to protect an artifact (such as a story or a song) against theft doesn't mean it isn't the rightful property of the author. What is Simon contributing, or does he just live off others' efforts?

John Ledbury, Kings Lynn, England

Could a person use a polarized lens to filter out half of the signal and revert the movie back to 2d? Even if this is not correct someone will create a program that merges the info into a single 2d image through some mathematical algorithm.

The answer to piracy is to lower the price. If a new movie cost 3 dollars at the theater and popcorn and drinks were reasonably priced more people would attend but more importantly there would be less piracy as no one would wait 30min to download and watch an inferior quality movie if they could pay such a low price to see it. Similarly how many people would copy DVDs and spend 90 min using various tools to make a shrunken copy of a movie if they could buy the thing for lets say $5 instead of $19.95 or some other ridiculously high price. Most piracy would be stamped out but then I guess Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts would have to take huge pay cuts and only make $2 million instead of $20 million and we know they can't live on that

Bill Jones, USA, USA

Julia, London
Copyright infringement is not piracy and not theft. It does not deny anyone free use of their personal possessions.

It is (usually) illegal but it is definitely not theft: If you have a book and I take a copy we both have a book, you are not denied full and proper use of that book.

It is the author/publisher/publicist that suffers in not being payed their license fee. But no-one steals from them.

bob, Newport,

Two Huge problems:

1. People who ware glasses will need to be catered for!

2. DVD/HD-DVD/BlueRay releases.... surely these will still be pirated as you can not expect all households to have special tvs and glasses all round!

A flawed idea if ever I saw one, not only the above but as illustrated by Grindhouse. Many movie directors are looking at older styles to carry new stories.... so 3D movies won't be fully adopted.

Andrew Campbell-Burt, Madrid, Spain,

3D is good for cartoons or adventure films. How would make a comedy in 3D?

Natam Das, Paris, France

Piracy is theft, pure and simple. However, personally I'd find the switch to 3D movies a problem, as I dont have true 3D vision, so in fact get blurred "double-vision" instead when watching "3D" films. How many other people would be similarly effected by this, and so stay away from cinemas?

Julia, London, UK

And how is this supposed to work for those of us who wear spectacles?

I can't see many people paying to go and watch a 3-D unfocussed blur because we can only fit one pair of glasses on our heads at once.

Dave, Cambridge, UK

Well, piracy is not a fight against the big companies. It is merely an expression of freedom of communication, where people use the internet to bypass the normal production-consumer chains.

It's as impossible to stop piracy as it is to enforce the intellectual properties. Instead the movie companies need to create physical and material objects to sell and make revenue (like people have done in all times).

As an active participant of the pirate movement I therefore salute this inititiative. I hope we'll see more of this, and less of outdated business models trying to attack my own private property (computer/hard drive/broadband connection) with absurd claims of ownership).

You can't own ideas, you can only own their containers.
Thanks,

Simon Rosenqvist

Simon, Hässleholm, Sweden