Andre Yoskowitz
4 Aug 2007 18:45
A teen girl in Virginia was arrested and now faces up to a year in jail and a $2500 USD fine after recording a 20 second clip from the movie Transformers to show her little brother.
The girl recorded the clip on a borrowed Canon Power Shot camera and was arrested minutes later on the charges that she was a pirate. The girl, understandably was terrified. “I was crying, I’ve never been in trouble before.” She hoped to get her little brother hyped to go pay and see the movie by recording a small clip of the action.
Obviously the girl was not planning to sell the 20 second clip, but the theater, in Arlington, did not care. 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.”
Although she should have known better than to point a camera at a movie screen in this day in age, I hope the case is thrown out.
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