camming

camming

English

Etymology 1

Contraction of camcording.

Noun

camming (uncountable)

1. (slang) Camcording; the illegal re-recording of films on camcorder in a cinema.
   • 2006, Joan M Van Tassel, Digital rights management

     Many of the VCDs sold in Asia stem from such camming...

   • 2007 February 19, Ian Austen, “Hollywood Gets Tough on Movie Copying in Canada”, in New York Times‎:

     In the United States, federal law as well as 40 state laws can impose harsh penalties for videotaping movies from theater screens, a process known as camming.

   • 2009, Robert Bird, Subhash C Jain, The Global Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights

     Considering the supposed losses due to camming, the small reward and associated limitations on receiving it are unlikely to encourage employees to make the extra, and perhaps dangerous, effort to stop this illegal conduct.

Etymology 2

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)

Verb

camming

1. present participle of cam