Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy 705
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 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. "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."
You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
'We sang "Happy Birthday" to her in the theater,'
A copyrighted work [wikipedia.org]? Performed in public? If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy. The planets have aligned for an orgy of copyright violations! Tell me, in the video were you also photocopying the Harry Potter books with a scanner hooked up to a laptop with a cracked version of Windows 7 on it?
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
Tell me, in the video were you also photocopying the Harry Potter books with a scanner hooked up to a laptop with a cracked version of Windows 7 on it?
No, it was an Acer Netbook Hackintosh.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy.
Really?
Can we watch - I've never seen nipples explode. Do I need to use an include tag?
This is the best copy of New Moon on Pirate Bay (Score:5, Funny)
Check in the top 100 movies section.
This should be best release until the R5 which only contains 2 minutes of the movie along with footage of some guy named Dmitri's colonoscopy.
There is a near screener quality copy of the movie available, but unfortunately it contains the entire run length of the movie and is best avoided.
Punishment almost fits the crime (Score:5, Funny)
I don't see the problem. (Score:5, Funny)
unfortunately two "very shot segments" was enough to make theater managers want to press charges.
Shooting at anybody is grounds for assault with a deadly weapon. I didn't know they put guns in camcorders now. Fortunately that she will be out on parole sooner than if this was actually a copyright violation.
Re:I don't see the problem. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good test case (Score:2, Funny)
what's worse? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure which is worse:
1. Video taping a movie in a theater
2. Singing happy birthday in the middle of a movie theater in the middle of a movie
3. Seeing New Moon
Singing at a movie theater? (Score:2, Funny)
3 minutes = 3 years (Score:5, Funny)
If she's facing three years in jail for filming three minutes of Twilight, what is the movie's director of photography facing? Surely all ninety minutes of it, plus being the original creator of that, merits far more?
Next time ... (Score:2, Funny)
Next time Micheal Moore comes annoying some poor multinational CEO with his video camera, just repeal him with an iPhone playing some blockbuster flicks and call the cops!
Re:Is a movie theater really a public place? (Score:3, Funny)
That's discrimination against the Scots (kilts) and women (skirts, dresses)!
Also, in several jurisdictions, topless is legal for both sexes [wikipedia.org].
Taping a few minutes of some crap movie (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't see the problem. (Score:4, Funny)
No kidding! Even the A-10 Thunderbolt II's [wikipedia.org] main antitank cannon [wikipedia.org] is only 30mm!
It's amazing what people smuggle into movie theaters nowadays.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
...the Acer wifi is unsupported!
Hey, 2005 called and wants its joke back.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, 2005 called and wants its joke back.
Hey, 1995 called and wants its rejoinder back. ;)
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
Sarcasm called and it is really pleased by your joke.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:3, Funny)
If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy.
Really?
Can we watch - I've never seen nipples explode. Do I need to use an include tag?
I tried to film it, but apparently that is also some sort of 'copyright violation'.
Re:Oh my! (Score:2, Funny)
It also doesn't say if, when arrested, she had drugs on her, which clearly means she had 1 kg of coke on her, which she was distributing in the theater.
It doesn't say which birthday it was, so clearly the sister was a minor.
It doesn't say if they were wearing clothing or not, so clearly the "family birthday party" was child pornography.
It doesn't say if she killed any of the police officers who arrested her, so we can assume she did.
This drug-dealing, cop-killing, copyright violating child pornographer got away with only 2 days in jail. What the hell is wrong with this country? She should have been sentenced to die by lethal injection, then given the antidote and killed again for good measure. These bleeding-heart liberal judges have no sense of holy retribution.
Re:Punishment almost fits the crime (Score:1, Funny)
Some vampires think they can outsmart me. Maybe. *sniff* Maybe. I've yet to see one that can outsmart stake.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:4, Funny)
If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy.
Are you using a Hungarian to English translator? I have to tell you that my hovercraft is full of eels.
Re:This is so unreasonable it's mindless... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what's worse? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
Because they're PIRATES goddammit!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Re:Is a movie theater really a public place? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh.
My.
God.
The zombies have already won - and they haven't even risen yet!
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, it's not meant literally. It's a well-known Hungarian expression.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, the Alps.
Cue the Monty Python nerds (i.e. me :D) (Score:3, Funny)
I will not buy that joke. It is old. And scratched.
Re:Punishment almost fits the crime (Score:5, Funny)
To my wife after the movie: If I were a vampire, I'd kick Edward's ass for making us all look like effeminate pansies. And why do sparkly vampires get to watch teenage girls sleep, but I get in trouble for looking too closely at professional cheerleaders on TV?
Re:Is a movie theater really a public place? (Score:3, Funny)
Big Wife is watching you (Score:5, Funny)
"The wife"
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:3, Funny)
"It's a well-known Hungarian expression."
"Exploding nipples"? I don't think so. You might refer to nipplesExp or maybe ExplodingNipples; that would be quite on the mark.
Re:Is a movie theater really a public place? (Score:3, Funny)
I learned this in my concealed carry classes. My state has no legal provision for a property owner to post "no guns allowed" signs. They can post them but they have no force of law. All they can do is ask you to leave if they discover that you are armed -- you haven't actually broken any laws unless they ask you to leave and you decline to do so.
But those signs work well as a deterrent. I own land where we're building datacenter space on, and while I think the 15 foot fence with barbed wire will do the job, I've put signs up. They say "The use of lethal force is authorized at this installation" every 15 feet. Totally false of course. But it scare off most of the people who would want to cause trouble.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:3, Funny)
>>>Can we watch - I've never seen nipples explode.
Son, you need to spend more time watching the PR0N. You are now at an advanced-enough age to have seen these things.
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score:2, Funny)
That's it.... (Score:1, Funny)
I'm gonna copyright, patent, trademark, and register the idea of coming up with an idea, and lobby the shit out of it. This way when you all come up with an idea, I'm gonna throw all you thieves in jail.
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