Projector and IR audio?
I was lucky enough to get a free projector recently, and would love to use it camping. But of course I don’t want to be “that guy” who annoys everybody else with noise after dark, so last night I star...
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GordonThree wrote:
Just to throw it out there, in the land of the free home of the brave, showing pre-recorded copyrighted content (like a movie) to a large group of people (even for free) is not legal. It's actually a federal felony.
Making "backup" copies of any A/V source that has specific anti copy protections that you must break to get around the anti copy protections is not covered by "fair use" either but millions of folks DO that to..
I seriously doubt that Gov agents nor MPAA executives are hovering over every campground and home backyard watching for someone to break out the video projector and play a couple of movies once and a while with a bunch of FRIENDS AND FAMILY so they can issue them a "Cease and Desist" order and then fine them..
They are looking for examples of commercial enterprise (IE making money) and they did not get their "cut" of it.
Entertaining the entire campground could get a bit dicey but if just at your campsite with some of your close friends and family it most likely would be ignored..
If you look solely by the letter of the law, even watching it your backyard with your family would be highly questionable because the wording is PUBLIC and your own outdoor "theater" could be considered PUBLIC, not private even if it was located in the middle of 100 acres..
I commend the OP for being considerate to fellow campers, even 1 or 2 watts of power can carry considerable distance, portable battery powered bull horns typically are less than 10 watts and can carry thousands of feet.
