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TORRENT FREAK - Jhannet Sejas, a 19 year old girl was immediately
arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the
movie "Transformers" that she wanted to show to her little brother. She
now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Sejas was celebrating
her 19th Birthday with her boyfriend in a local theater in Arlington
[VA]. A few minutes after she taped the short clip the police came
rushing in and took her into custody on the charges of "being a pirate".
Sejas and her boyfriend were promptly escorted out of the movie theater,
still confused about what just happened. "I was crying, I've never been
in trouble before.", she later said in a response to the trip to the
police station.
Of course Sejas had no intention to sell the 600 millisecond clip, she
wasn't even planning to put it on YouTube. The only thing she wanted to
do was show it to her 13 year old brother, who was dying to see the
movie himself. Unluckily theater owners just introduced their new
zero-tolerance policy since everyone can be a pirate.
Kendrick Macdowell, a representative National Association of Theater
Owners said in a response: "We cannot educate theater managers to be
judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot
distinguish between good and bad stealing.". . .
Sejas will go to trial later this month for recording a motion picture
without permission, and is facing up to a year in jail and a $2,500
fine. Seriously unbelievable.
http://torrentfreak.com/teen-arrested-for-recording-20-second-movie-clip/
DANIELA DEANE WASHINGTON POST - Arlington police spokesman John Lisle
said it was the decision of Regal Cinemas Ballston Common 12 to
prosecute the case, a first for Arlington police. . . Jason Schultz,
senior staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he is
aware of only one case prosecuted under the federal statute. In
September 2005, a Missouri theater employee pleaded guilty to two counts
of using a camcorder to copy two movies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/
AR2007080102398.html
FIND THE REGAL CINEMAS IN YOUR AREA TO AVOID
http://www.regalcinemas.com/movies/locations.jsp
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TORRENT FREAK - Jhannet Sejas, a 19 year old girl was immediately
arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the
movie "Transformers" that she wanted to show to her little brother. She
now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Sejas was celebrating
her 19th Birthday with her boyfriend in a local theater in Arlington
[VA]. A few minutes after she taped the short clip the police came
rushing in and took her into custody on the charges of "being a pirate".
Sejas and her boyfriend were promptly escorted out of the movie theater,
still confused about what just happened. "I was crying, I've never been
in trouble before.", she later said in a response to the trip to the
police station.
Of course Sejas had no intention to sell the 600 millisecond clip, she
wasn't even planning to put it on YouTube. The only thing she wanted to
do was show it to her 13 year old brother, who was dying to see the
movie himself. Unluckily theater owners just introduced their new
zero-tolerance policy since everyone can be a pirate.
Kendrick Macdowell, a representative National Association of Theater
Owners said in a response: "We cannot educate theater managers to be
judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot
distinguish between good and bad stealing.". . .
Sejas will go to trial later this month for recording a motion picture
without permission, and is facing up to a year in jail and a $2,500
fine. Seriously unbelievable.
http://torrentfreak.com/teen-arrested-for-recording-20-second-movie-clip/
DANIELA DEANE WASHINGTON POST - Arlington police spokesman John Lisle
said it was the decision of Regal Cinemas Ballston Common 12 to
prosecute the case, a first for Arlington police. . . Jason Schultz,
senior staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he is
aware of only one case prosecuted under the federal statute. In
September 2005, a Missouri theater employee pleaded guilty to two counts
of using a camcorder to copy two movies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/
AR2007080102398.html
FIND THE REGAL CINEMAS IN YOUR AREA TO AVOID
http://www.regalcinemas.com/movies/locations.jsp
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