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:Good test case

[iamhassi]

"This seems like a good test case."

I think it already proves no one should see any Twilight movies.

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

[CohibaVancouver]

I've never seen nipples explode

Your narrative has become tiresome!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprockets_(Saturday_Night_Live)

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

[Shakrai]

They also believed we shouldn't have a standing army.

So did Eisenhower. Nobody listened to him either.

They also believed that every citizen needed to own a gun in order to protect the nation.

Many people, myself included, still believe this.

Today? Not so much.

So rather then present any meaningful argument about why we don't need copyrights and/or patents you merely attack one line of mine? Interesting approach.

English for the other two thirds of the

[vorlich]

English speaking world.

There's footage of she and her relatives singing to her sister

There is footage of her and her relatives singing to her sister.
There fixed that for you.

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

[cyphercell]

I pretty much agree with the sentiment.

Seriously, STFU about what you think our forefathers would do. Fuck you, you don't know, fuck we have full blown shanty towns the size of the old colonies or larger (Detroit). You know what our forefathers would do? They'd burn you at the fuckin' stake the first time you microwaved a goddamned cheeseburger.

And as long as we're citing imaginary experts.

Cleopatra thinks you're a moron.

Napoleon agrees.

General Lee called to say were wrong.

and George Washington wants your mom's phone number.

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

[Shakrai]

Seriously, STFU about what you think our forefathers would do. Fuck you, you don't know, fuck we have full blown shanty towns the size of the old colonies or larger (Detroit).

And that's relevant to a discussion about copyrights and patents, how?

They'd burn you at the fuckin' stake the first time you microwaved a goddamned cheeseburger.

Actually I suspect that Franklin (among others) would have been quite intrigued by modern technology. Few of the founding fathers were overly religious and I rather doubt they would have been inclined to burn anybody at the stake for any reason.

And as long as we're citing imaginary experts.

I wasn't "citing" anybody. All I pointed out was that the value of limited duration patents were recognized a long time ago. I don't think that underlying concept has changed any in 250 years. If you have no patents then you have little incentive for innovation. If you have patents that last too long then you also retard innovation.

Go ahead and keep harping on the fact that I had the audacity to cite the people who created our system of government though. It's probably a lot easier than refuting the actual point.

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

[Shakrai]

The length of copyrights or patents have little to do with the irony of so called "free market" advocates lobbying to regulate their customer base.

"So called" are the most insightful two words you've used thus far. People who try to buy the system to protect their business model are anything but free market advocates. I include in this category the tel/cable-cos that get government backed monopolies, the rights holders (I'm looking at you Disney) that want never-ending copyright, the businesses that get their technology mandated by law (Macrovision), etc, etc.

if you really think about it and read the thread again your argument for free and sensible patents and copyrights are much more in line with true capitalism over the bullshit our current regime of circle jerking CxOs try to pass off.

Indeed. So why are we having this conversation? Do you think that I side with those circle jerking assholes that try to buy our political system?

you're a jackass

Wow, how insightful :)

The discussion was about pseudo capitalists raping our IP system to the point you can't use a camera without risking a prison sentence.

Which brought out the typical "grr, copyrights are bad! information wants to be free!" responses that we've all come to know and love. That's who my reply was directed at. What's the problem here?

What the fuck are you doing?

Waiting for a large file copy operation at the office to finish and passing the time by being called a jackass.

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

[rubycodez]

1982 called and wants your signature about 2019 back.

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

[ceoyoyo]

Yeah, but 2005 was calling on a smart phone. Over Skype.

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

[icannotthinkofaname]

Death called, and he's asking for the joke.