The draft bill should ban the
illegal use of or intent to use an audiovisual recording device in a movie theater to record a film off the screen. A
standalone mechanism independent of copyright is needed so that the courts can be alleviated of various procedural
hurdles to enforcement (such as subsistence and ownership issues) in order to effectively fight this virulent and fastspreading
form of piracy in Thailand.
Prospects for Passage of Copyright Law Amendments in 2010: Amendments to the Copyright Act have