Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy

A 22-year-old woman from Chicago recently spent two nights in jail and could face up to three years in prison for taping four minutes of the new movie Twilight: New Moon. Samantha Tumpach and family threw her sister a surprise birthday party at the theater and captured much of it on video. Unfortunately, two "very short segments" were enough to make theater managers want to press charges. "Tumpach insisted she recorded no more than three minutes while in the theater — and said not all of the video she shot was of the movie. There's footage of [Tumpach] and her relatives singing to her sister, she said. 'We sang "Happy Birthday" to her in the theater,' Tumpach said. She also took pictures of family members in the theater before the film began, but an usher who saw the photo session never issued them a warning, Tumpach said."

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Re:Is a movie theater really a public place?

[taustin]

It's a hell of a lot more likely to be true than the random dribblings of some Slashtard.

Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You?

[commodore64_love]

Anonymous COWARD wrote:
Oh, and try posting something original, instead of copy/pasting your posts and karma whoring

Go eat shit anonymous frakker. Those are MY words and I can copy/paste them as many times as I want... just like that Harry Potter author can keep earning millions off the same book reprinted again-and-again-and-again.

And you're wrong when you say the Founding Fathers didn't have whole industries around the production of media. They had:
- writers
- musicians
- composers
- reporters/editors
- printers
- inventors
- artists
- artisans
- and so on