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                                                                                A 22-year-old woman from Chicago recently spent two nights in jail and could face up to three years in prison for <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1916606,twilight-taping-arrest-movie-120209.article">taping four minutes</a> of the new movie <em>Twilight: New Moon</em>.
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. <i>"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."</i></div></div>