Woman Filming Parts Of Sister's Birthday Party At Theater, Charged With Movie Copying

[DeathKnell]

She recently spent two nights in a Chicago jail and is now facing a further three years imprisonment.

You only have to look at her to see she’s a criminal type.

Her crime?

Her sister had a surprise 29th birthday party at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont and Samantha made a video including her “and a few other family members singing Happy Birthday’,” says the Chicago Sun-Times.

Now she’s charged “with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies,” says the story.

Because during she also captured bits of ‘Twilight’.

After a worker saw her shooting the video, managers contacted police. Later, commander Frank Siciliano said officers found Samantha had taped “two very short segments” of the movie — no more than four minutes in total, says the story.

She was arrested “after theater managers insisted on pressing charges, he said,” it states, going on.........

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

The footage she shot “also includes the pre-film commercials, as well as her talking about the camera and the movie,” says the Chicago Sun-Times, adding:

“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.”

Source: P2PNet

DeathKnell Reviewed by DeathKnell on 5th Dec 2009. Woman Filming Parts Of Sister's Birthday Party At Theater, Charged With Movie Copying She recently spent two nights in a Chicago jail and is now facing a further three years imprisonment. You only have to look at her to see she’s a criminal type. Her crime? Her sister had a surprise 29th birthday party at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont and Samantha made a video including her “and a few other family members singing Happy Birthday’,” says the Chicago Sun-Times. Now she’s charged “with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new Rating: 5

[Phozon]

this is why these cunts need sorting out poor women done nothing wrong

[priviet02]

this is f**king stupid lol..but not surprising of this big american corporations

[lig}{tning]

motherfuckers (sorry)

[Dean2k]

What a load of ballocks.. Power Hungry motherfuckers.

[computer]

Can we support her? If so where? Donation links, websites etc?

[Elio]

probably a bs story to scare people

[ACE]

Wow, this was obviously an accident. What can you do with 4 minutes tapped from a movie?

[computer]

This was covered by CNN so a hoax i think not. Must be a misunderstanding.

[shadow.prx]

Im getting tired of these motherfuckers
What the fuck is anyone going to to with 4mins of footage
I agree with Dean2k they are power hungry they know they will never stop piracy but they prosecute people they can get to make themselves look good when really their is a bunch of people they cant touch. So what they are fine with prosecute people who are innocent thats just bullshit shows you how ruthless these wankers really are