A cinema chain announced Tuesday that it is now barring patrons from wearing Google Glass at its movie houses across the US in a bid to clamp down on piracy.

Alamo Drafthouse, which runs theaters in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, and soon in California, is among the first US chains to ban Google's computerized eyewear.

"Google Glass is officially banned from @drafthouse auditoriums once lights dim for trailers," the chain's chief executive, Tim League, tweeted. The decision comes as Google has made the eyewear readily available to the general public, and it follows a slew of incidents in which wearers of Google Glass have had brushes with the law.

In January, for example, the FBI dragged an Ohio man watching Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit from an AMC theater. The unit was not on and was instead functioning as a pair of prescription glasses.

“About an hour into the movie, a guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says ‘follow me outside immediately.’ It was quite embarrassing, and outside of the theater there were about 5-10 cops and mall cops,” the man told the Gadgeteer. After the incident, AMC announced that "wearing a device that has the capability to record video is not appropriate at the movie theater."

Also in January, a California motorist was cited for wearing Google Glass while driving, but she was cleared months later.

Google Glass has also been banned at restaurants, strip clubs, and other venues like casinos.