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Then he fell asleep.

He wore the modified glasses—bulky, retrofitted with a pinhole camera and a laser microphone that read the vibrations off the theater’s screen glass. Every Tuesday night, he bought a ticket to the newest blockbuster, sat in the third row (center, for the least keystone distortion), and recorded. telesync

In the golden age of the format (the late 1990s and early 2000s), pirates achieved this through various methods. Sometimes, an accomplice inside the projection booth would plug a recorder directly into the "hearing impaired" audio jack—a feature mandated by law in many theaters. Other times, pirates used high-end wireless microphones placed dangerously close to the speakers, or they utilized the FM broadcast signals that some drive-in theaters used for sound. Then he fell asleep