Woman Arrested for Recording 4 Minutes of "New Moon" - Polidicks

[quote=Article] Taping three minutes of “Twilight: New Moon” during a visit to a Rosemont movie theater landed Samantha Tumpach in a jail cell for two nights. Now, the 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies and selling bootleg copies. But Tumpach insisted Wednesday that’s not what she was doing — she was actually taping parts of her sister’s surprise birthday party celebrated at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont. While she acknowledged there are short bits of the movie on her digital camera, there are other images that have nothing to do with the new film — including she and a few other family members singing “Happy Birthday” to her 29-year-old sister at the theater. “It was a big thing over nothing,” Tumpach said of her Saturday afternoon arrest. “We were just messing around. Everyone is so surprised it got this far.” She was nabbed when a worker saw her shooting video during the movie, Rosemont police said. Managers contacted police, who examined the small digital camera, which also records video segments, Cmdr. Frank Siciliano said. Officers found that Tumpach had taped “two very short segments” of the movie — no more than four minutes total, he said. Tumpach was arrested after theater managers insisted on pressing charges, he said. She was charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition. She remained jailed for two nights in Rosemont’s police station until being taken to bond court on Monday, where a Cook County judge ordered her released on a personal recognizance bond that didn’t require her to post any cash. Rosemont police, though, seemed to sympathize with her situation, she said. “They were so nice to me,” she said. 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 she 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. As ads and previews ran on the big screen, she fiddled with the camera — which she got in July and is still learning how to work — and was surprised to see it took clear videos of the screen. The footage she shot also includes the pre-film commercials, as well as her talking about the camera and the movie. “You can hear me talking the whole time,” Tumpach said. She plans to fight in court the felony filed against her because she said she did nothing wrong — and certainly didn’t try to secretly tape the movie. “It was never my intention to record the movie,” she said. Related Blog Posts NightVision Digital Video Camera [/quote] Three years for 4 minutes of Twilight? Should be life. Source: [url]http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1916606,twilight-taping-arrest-movie-120209.article[/url]

Twilight fans get what they deserve.

Twilight is dumb anyway, who cares.

haha even cops hate twifags

It could have been any movie, this still sucks for her.

[QUOTE=Combined45;18731773]Twilight fans get what they deserve.[/QUOTE] You wouldn't say the same if it was District 9 or Zombieland, now, would you?

She should have recorded the movie in Canada, we have no laws against filming movies in the theatre, the staff there just frown on it.

Tumpach? deserved it, why waste some memory on that shit

Even if it's twilight, 3 years is awful. Who made these shitty laws?

Does this mean the people who stayed for the whole movie got life sentences? One can dream.

you know facepunch is composed of 15 year olds when, "i don't like what this person watched so this shitty law is just fine" is the opinion held by the majority

[QUOTE=Lazor;18732403]you know facepunch is composed of 15 year olds when, "i don't like what this person watched so this shitty law is just fine" is the opinion held by the majority[/QUOTE] So you're saying it's ok to sit in a theatre with a camera and record it?

can you read? hell, even if she did intentionally record 4 minutes of a movie, you have to be retarded to think that a sentence of 3 years is justified

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[QUOTE=vassikinexthree;18732454]So you're saying it's ok to sit in a theatre with a camera and record it?[/QUOTE] Even if she recorded whole movie, 3 years is too much.

[QUOTE=Lazor;18732480]can you read? hell, even if she did intentionally record 4 minutes of a movie, you have to be retarded to think that a sentence of 3 years is justified[/QUOTE] It looked like it says that there were segments of the movie on the camera. I'm pretty sure it kinda sorta says in every theatre that it's illegal and you can face a fine and jailtime. She shouldn't have had the camera in the theatre to begin with. If you think about it, this is basically manslaughter but with piracy.

There's already some versions floating about anyway, though why you'd want to pirate this crap is beyond me.

[QUOTE=johanz;18732578]Even if she recorded whole movie, 3 years is too much.[/QUOTE] [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/377881024_99996a5675.jpg[/img] Legally she could have gotten up to 5 years and the fine.

[QUOTE=vassikinexthree;18732647][img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/377881024_99996a5675.jpg[/img] Legally she could have gotten up to 5 years and the fine.[/QUOTE] That's why legal law is retarded.

just because it's the law does not make it right. and no it's not like the manslaughter of piracy, how can you even think that's a good comparison?

Was it the whale? Did the harpoons finally get her? Oh please say so!

[QUOTE=johanz;18732663]That's why legal law is retarded.[/QUOTE] Because it's so hard to not point the camera at the screen, or to just leave the camera in the car.

The director of New Moon should be arrested for recording it too.

You get arrested for recording a shit nowadays.

[QUOTE=vassikinexthree;18732674]Because it's so hard to not point the camera at the screen, or to just leave the camera in the car.[/QUOTE] i guarantee you've broken multiple laws unknowingly and you'd be pitching a fit to if some asshole decided to arrest you on a technicality.

[QUOTE=Lazor;18732765]i guarantee you've broken multiple laws unknowingly and you'd be pitching a fit to if some asshole decided to arrest you on a technicality.[/QUOTE] There's a difference between breaking an unknown unenforced law, and bringing a camera into a movie theatre and playing with it while the movies going. Especially when there's anti piracy shit almost everywhere.

I don't support the charges. But then again, I don't support anything that goes on during a viewing of Twilight, either. So I'm undecided.

[QUOTE=vassikinexthree;18732647][img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/377881024_99996a5675.jpg[/img] Legally she could have gotten up to 5 years and the fine.[/QUOTE] Yes. UP TO.

[QUOTE=Acolyt3;18732967]Yes. UP TO.[/QUOTE] Yes, she could have gotten even more time then she did. All of this could have been prevented by just leaving her camera in the car. There's no need to have a camera in a theatre.

and there's no need to give her 3 years of jail time