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Woman arrested for theater "Twilight" taping

Jeri

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She faces up to three years in prison on the felony charge if convicted.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...osemont-blotter-nzone-02dec02,0,6586067.story



Woman charged with taping 'Twilight: New Moon' in theater

Tribune staff report

December 2, 2009

A Chicago woman was arrested after employees of a Rosemont movie theater saw her videotaping parts of "Twilight: New Moon," authorities reported.

Samantha Tumpach, 22, of the 3800 block of Odell Avenue, was charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition facility, and was released on a personal recognizance bond on Monday.

Prosecutors said employees of Muvico Theater at 9701 Bryn Mawr Ave. saw Tumpach in the theater Saturday night pointing a video camera at the screen during a showing of the movie. Employees detained her and called police, who arrested her after the theater pressed charges, prosecutors said.

Tumpach had less than two minutes of the movie on her video camera, prosecutors said. She faces up to three years in prison on the felony charge if convicted.
 
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That's funny. At least she picked an awesome theatre to go to. I live right around there and when I go to the movies, I'll pick that one.
 
Busted for videotaping ~2min. of an arguably bad film that is already on the internet = EPIC FAIL
 
Meanwhile I can walk down the street and find whole shops devoted to this kind of thing, right out in the open. And I don't know where I can buy a licensed DVD. China, Russia, places like that, the stuff even goes on television and other commercial uses. My students, for the most part, assume they are perfectly entitled to any and everything digital without license. Oh, and then mock "foreigners" who "love" their pirated DVDs. Meanwhile, hum, guess who's subsidizing the trade. And it doesn't take a genius to know why they are still in business.

Oh but they close shop for the two weeks of the international film festival, or other international summits, Olympics, Expos, stuff like that. Wouldn't want to give the wrong impression!

So I find this woman's problem to be something like swatting flies with 2x4's and ignoring the alligator sitting in the corner.
 
So.... how is this news? The woman should have just check out youtube for clips. :rommie:
 
Triskelion said:
Meanwhile I can walk down the street and find whole shops devoted to this kind of thing, right out in the open. And I don't know where I can buy a licensed DVD. China, Russia, places like that, the stuff even goes on television and other commercial uses. My students, for the most part, assume they are perfectly entitled to any and everything digital without license. Oh, and then mock "foreigners" who "love" their pirated DVDs. Meanwhile, hum, guess who's subsidizing the trade. And it doesn't take a genius to know why they are still in business.

Oh but they close shop for the two weeks of the international film festival, or other international summits, Olympics, Expos, stuff like that. Wouldn't want to give the wrong impression!

So I find this woman's problem to be something like swatting flies with 2x4's and ignoring the alligator sitting in the corner.
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The best part is that the companies use those organizations in order to get the laws passed so they can, inexplicably, go after the little fish who aren't even trying to make a penny off it. It's hilarious.
 
I agree, anyone trying to reproduce Twilight or New Moon should face a stiff prison sentence. Of course, in the interest of fairness, we get to lock of the studio heads who funded the film in the first place, right?

I don't know who is acting with greater stupidity--the woman, who was taping a movie she could have easily found on the internet with much less personal risk (and, probably, better quality) or the theatres/studios with these policies. Certainly taking her camera and kicking her out of the theatre would have been punishment enough, no?
 
"But it's Robert Pattinsoooooooooon!"

as would say countless of my female students (aged b/w 12 and 15...)
 
Harvey said:
Certainly taking her camera and kicking her out of the theatre would have been punishment enough, no?
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Quite, but given the ubiquity of pirated films taking a stern line does make sense. It may mean that only foolish amateurs get caught, but eh, it's something.
 
Call me crazy... but maybe this shouldn't be a criminal offense... and maybe they should just toss the lady out of the theater for violating their policies :rolleyes:
 
Yoda said:
Call me crazy... but maybe this shouldn't be a criminal offense... and maybe they should just toss the lady out of the theater for violating their policies :rolleyes:
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Ok. You're crazy.

As she didn't violate the theater's policies she broke the law. As recording copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder is akin to stealing.
 
Here's a lesson for all you wannabe pirating scum: Tup the ushers. Last time I ushered, I believe $20 per an hour was the min-rate.
 
Now we need to go after those bastards who tape football games without the express written consent of the NFL!
 
three years in prison compared to how much people get for other more serious crimes seems overkill. I think this women probably should get suspended sentance if the max 3 years are into play and heavy heavy fine.
 
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