Comments on: Young Woman Faces Felony Charges For Recording ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’

By: ellobie

ellobie — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:21:21 +0000

Hey man, if something like this being in the news gets those damn kids to turn their phones/cameras off during a movie, I’m all for throwing her in the slammer.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:11:35 +0000

I work at a movie theatre in Ontario, Canada. I’ll tell you something… the managers and any Cineplex (the company that owns 80% of all movie theatres in Canada) are soo effing anal about digital cameras too.
According to my fellow employees we can get up to $5,000 for turning someone in who might have any pictures or video footage. So I guarantee that worker was like “Hello money!!!!” He didn’t really give poop about the girl.. just the moola.
What I don’t get is.. why press charges on a girl who took 3 minutes of video and not a website who has the full DVD quality movie… people are just idiots!

By: Ally

Ally — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:27:02 +0000

If she was actually sitting there just recording the movie and intended to post it or sell it, than the theater’s actions are justified. If she was just joking around her friends and didn’t think about what she was doing, then she is just stupid and the theater should have just taken the tape. This is why going after people who have pirated music haven’t gone well. Giving some 19 yr old kid a $100,000 fine is just going to make them look mean and greedy. Have to find another way to stop it.

By: Janelle

Janelle — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:49:16 +0000

she sounds like a moron.

By: kk

kk — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:44:55 +0000

‘irregardless’ of whether or not she meant to pirate the movie, it sounds like she and her friends were being obnoxious, i’m sure the other movie goers were glad when she got booted!

By: Ohmygoshi

Ohmygoshi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:50:12 +0000

Seriously, putting her in jail for 3 years for less than 4 minutes of the movie is absolutely absurd. It’s a huge waste of money and space that should be reserved for real criminals.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:11:55 +0000

most reprehensible: The theater employee who caught her and turned her in. Talk about being a narc

By: jamie-o

jamie-o — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:47:42 +0000

confiscate the camera, delete it, the end. more time in jail than chris brown truly is stupid.

if she didn’t have the opportunity to take it out of the theater or show anyone, let alone make $ from it, what can they get her for anyway?

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:45:26 +0000

I agree that piracy is bad and stuff…but really, 3 years in jail? We PAY for these people to be put in jail…about $35,000 per year. The girl honestly sounds like it was an accident. If it wasn’t, give her a huge fine to pay. That’ll teach her to not do it again. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see the point of paying my hard earned money to house a NON-violent criminal in jail when they can get fines which are proved to work better than imprisonment in Europe. And I didn’t look all this stuff up on the internet. I just took a Criminology class so this stuff heats me up.

By: Chivonne

Chivonne — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:31:12 +0000

seriously my first thought was who the eff cares. it’s gonna end up on the internet anyways. blah blah blah taking away from the earned money of the actors but HELLO 200andwhate ver million seems like enough to me.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:46:37 +0000

Wow that seems a bit harsh.

By: Mila

Mila — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:22:10 +0000

The theater’s actions are morally reprehensible. Simply put, there has to be some equivalency of crime and punishment to be just. This, at best, makes a joke out of the justice system.

By: Teeshah

Teeshah — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:16:26 +0000

poor girl. i don’t think piracy hurts the pockets of actors. its the production company who cares so much about the money.

By: Roze

Roze — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:15:49 +0000

Amy your comment just reminded me how stupid and twisted the justice system is.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:05:42 +0000

She’s already spent more time in jail than most DUI/DWI convictions…something is seriously wrong with the justice system. While she did do something stupid, she is obviously not a pirate.

By: April

April — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:55:17 +0000

Amy that is really depressing. That statement kind of made you my hero.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:49:38 +0000

What’s really depressing about this is that she spent more time in jail than Chris Brown.

By: April

April — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:46:43 +0000

I disagree that piracy is a dream killer. Big, HUGE corporations that make MILLIONS of dollars is a dream killer. Sending a poor 22 year old girl to jail for three years because she video taped New Moon is more than a dream killer. We put our concerns in all the wrong places. Let us worry about poverty, aids, war, and how to stop global warming…let us not worry about someone recording a movie. One, if someone actually liked the movie, they will go buy the movie. A video taped version from a theater usually sucks compared to the actual movie. Two, the entertainment industry is making a ton of money. If they can expel millions of dollars to make movies, it will not hurt to have people watch the movie until it is released on DVD. Three, are we really saying people should waste their tax dollars for three years to house a woman in prison for video taping Twilight? If we are going to put people in prison we should have a much better reason for it. Do you honestly think that her crime is worth losing three years of her life for…honestly? If you do, I hope the next three years of your life suck.

By: mikey

mikey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:55:39 +0000

a couple of cam recorded movies hitting the web would undoubtedly have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of hits all over the internet. People think that oh I am only downloading this movie or this song illegally that it wont hurt, they wont notice, but they wouldnt be the only one doing so, and so a snowflake turns to a snow ball and so on and so forth, and its not the big blockbuster movies or albums that get affected, its the smaller, independent films that suffer the most. So if this Samantha girl was filming the movie, then I say lay down the full extent of the law on her, just like they would someone making bootleg copies and selling them blackmarket style. If it isnt stopped at a grass roots level at a simple cinema with a simple girl, eventually movies wont be like they used to, as there will be no money to be made from it… whatever the third book is in the twilight saga wouldnt be affected, but by “next” meaning an upcoming twilight style movie…Piracy = Dream killer said it spot on!

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:54:09 +0000

I think it’s important for the movie theater though you know. I mean if someone found out that they weren’t taking action against someone filming in the theater then they might think that they wouldn’t do anything if someone else was caught and then someone might go in with different intentions than this girl. Regardless of her intentions it is a well known fact that it’s illegal to film a movie in the theater and there have to be consequences for those actions.

By: aimie

aimie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:25:22 +0000

wow… i know during the midnight showing they came in and made a speech about the consequences of recording in the theatre and what not… so i’m not suprised they are making an example of her

By: Trillian

Trillian — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:49:14 +0000

@Piracy = Dream Killer. What do you mean for the next Twilight to even have a chance? These movies make so much money, a couple cam recorded torrents are not going to destroy them.

By: Piracy = Dream Killer

Piracy = Dream Killer — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:42:02 +0000

If she’s guilty and this is more than an “innocent mistake,” she has to pay the price in terms of jail or fines. Piracy is destroying the entertainment industry – and not just stock prices but more importantly, the livelihood of tens of thousands of hard-working people who are not rich or famous but have dedicated their lives to working in film, television, music, videos, videogames. For all of you who dream of working in these creative busineses and may even be going to school to study filmmaking, please adopt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to piracy. This may seem boring and “old fashioned” but for a new generation to have a chance to make a living creatively – and for the “next” TWILIGHT to even have a chance – piracy must be seen for what it is. A crime.

By: kmg

kmg — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:14:50 +0000

I actually grew up in Rosemont, Illinois. The police and the businesses there take EVERYTHING so so seriously. Every single time a person gets pulled over for a simple traffic violation two cops show up as “back up.” The village installed a gate and security check point at the residential area to protect the Mayor (who is now dead) from “death threats.” We actually moved out of Rosemont because the cops would ticket your car if you parked on a side street even if it didn’t have a “no parking” sign. BUT THAT’S ROSEMONT FOR YA!