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

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ignorance-knows-no-bounds dept.

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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  1. Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, it was from Pystar!

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  2. Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? by Anonymous+Poodle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hyperbole called, and wants this entire thread back. Irony could not be reached for comment.

  3. Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? by smurgy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    High School nerds called and are guffawing loudly even though this joking has been taken way too far.