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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in a scene from "New Moon".
A birthday party that included a trip to see "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" could send 22 year old Samantha Tumpach to prison for three years.
Samantha Tumpach from Chicago Illinois, captured 3 minutes of the film on her video camera why taping part of her sisters surprise birthday party.
The managers at the theater contacted the police and Tumpach was arrested. She spent two days in jail and now has felony charges to face for illegally copying a movie.
There is a zero tolerance policy that prohibits video or audio recording of any portion of a movie. The motion picture industry has encouraged this.
She only recorded a small portion for a birthday video, but it's up to local police to determine what happens from this point forward.
I really don't know where I stand on this. I for one believe that piracy is very wrong and people should be punished for it. However with something like this I don't think she deserves 3 years in prison either. She's not going to sell the video or anything like that. So it's up to the law to figure out where to go from here now.
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Its up to the Judge now to determine if its just a birthday party memoir or piracy. Clearer minds were not present at the theatre in any case.
well doesn't that suck lol. bummer for her. hope she learns a lesson not to do that again. Lets count down for the eclipse.
its not as if she recorded the whole movie, its obvious that she had no intent to distribute or try and watch it at home, its a damn shame.
The Movie theater that prosecuted the girl is Muvico Theaters. They have theaters in Hialeah Florida, Tampa Florida'
Palm Harbor Florida, Pompano Beach Florida,St. Petersburg Florida,
West Palm Beach Florida,Boca Raton Florida,Thousand Oaks California and Rosemont Illinois this is where the Incident took place.
"I really don't know where I stand on this."
Obviously. Hey Honey, while you're figuring all this out could you tell us what you did last night, do you where did you woke up this morning? Are you stroked out or just an idiot?
lay off the blow
If you have a facebook she is receiving Support at this Group Search:
Let's Help Samantha Tumpach - It Was a Just a New Moon Birthday Party!
i think they should spend more time searching for the real piracy and not deal with a stupid confusion that propably was a misunderstanding.
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