New Moon Pirate Camming Farce Comes To An End

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On 2nd November, 22 year-old Samantha Tumpach was out with family celebrating her sister’s 29th birthday. Like many, they chose a movie theater for the happy occasion, specifically the Muvico Theater in Rosemont, United States.

Watching ‘Twilight: New Moon’ would be an experience she’d never forget.

Camera in hand, Tumpach took pictures of her family before the movie began and recorded her relatives singing “Happy Birthday”. She also turned the camera towards the big screen, snagging small portions of adverts, previews and short sections of the movie – 4 minutes in all – accompanied by her own amateur voice-over.

Then a theater robot worker saw what was going on, immediately recalled their MPAA programming and decided that evil had been done. Tumpach was taken to theater managers who identified her as a professional and criminal pirate. Eventually she was handed over to the police who sympathized with her situation. “They were so nice to me,” Tumpach said.

Despite this, the managers insisted on pressing charges. Tumpach spent two nights in jail, charged with criminally recording a motion picture, before being released pending a court appearance.

“We were just messing around,” she said. “Everyone is so surprised it got this far.”

Hearing of her plight, Tumpach received support from an unlikely corner – Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz.

“Needless to say, the case seems to me terribly unfair and I would like to do what I can to address this,” Weitz wrote in an email.

Whether or not this pressure made any difference is unclear, but Tumpach left a courtroom a free woman today, the charge against her dismissed after prosecutors decided not to pursue the case.

“She’s traumatized by this,” said her attorney Dominick Dolci. “This is the worst event of her life and she wants to put it behind her.”

Her other attorney, Howard Kavenow, added: “This was nothing more than a birthday party where photos were being taken. It’s nonsense.”

Samantha Tumpach will not now face three years in jail, no thanks to the heartless and completely idiotic theater managers who tried to ruin her life.

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[HX1]

You know... so many ways you loose complete faith in people...

[manpe]

Both are to be blamed... I don't think it is allowed to take a camera into the cinema hall, so that was a mistake by the Tumpach family. But second to blame is the stupid management who couldn't probably figure out from the footage that it was hardly a "professional pirate". What a waste of time for those people..

[AndromedaAnima]

Blame the workers for not checking their belongings for a camera. The family got in trouble for no apparent reason. It's not like they were deliberately filming the movie. Sheesh!

[Bizarre™]

If they had a great lawyer, they could've won the case and received some compensation.

This is what the anti-piracy bastards are obviously doing.

Let them have a taste of their own medicine.

[nooooooooo]

Boy, what a daft movie theater. Yes, you shouldn't take cameras in but check the freaking footage first. Really nice pirating if the most of the movie is missing and there is a voiceover from the birthday girl. We'll really eat that up!