[pp.int.general] Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy

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Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy on Friday December 04, @04:55PM 																												Posted		by 							ScuttleMonkey							on Friday December 04, @04:55PM		
			from the ignorance-knows-no-bounds dept.																											                                                                                                                                movies                                        																																					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 partyat the theater and captured much of it on video. Unfortunately, two"very short segments" were enough to make theater managers want topress charges. "Tumpach insisted she recorded no more than threeminutes while in the theater — and said not all of the video she shotwas of the movie. There's footage of [Tumpach] and her relativessinging to her sister, she said. 'We sang "Happy Birthday" to her inthe theater,' Tumpach said. She also took pictures of family members inthe theater before the film began, but an usher who saw the photosession never issued them a warning, Tumpach said."
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