According to reports at the Kansas City Star, police were called around 9:40 p.m. to the Eastglen 16 cinemaplex in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, after theater personnel spotted a customer attempting to videotape the movie. The man, whose name was not released, was arrested shortly afterwards. A police raid at his house found “evidence” of a cache of pirate DVDs.

The report made no indication of whom, if anyone, the man might be working for.

It appears that the MPAA and publisher Warner Bros. are taking piracy extremely seriously this weekend, as “The Dark Knight” grossed more than $66.4 million – a new record – on the day it opened. Complimenting the movie’s blowout opening figures is the fact that almost 50,000 voters say the movie is worth a 9.5 rating on IMDb.com, placing it as “the best movie of all time” and beating out other classic films like The Godfather, Schindler’s List, and Casablanca.

TorrentFreak reports that movie industry representatives handed out night vision goggles to Australian theaters in an effort to prevent “camming,” or the act of videotaping a movie as it plays in theaters. Both the United States and Canada have “anti-camcording” legislation in effect, and this Grandview man’s plight is only the latest case to achieve worldwide publicity. A Montreal, Canada man was arrested last September for attempting to record “Dan in Real Life,” and a Virginia teenager was arrested one month prior for attempting to record 20 seconds from “Transformers” on a Canon Powershot digital camera.

The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association will go so far as to offer theater employees a $500 reward for stopping cammers in their tracks.

In the United States, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, signed into law in 2005, makes camcording movies a federal felony, subjecting those caught to a maximum of five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

Despite box office numbers sitting at an all-time high, the movie industry still claims $250m in losses due to movie piracy in its various forms.