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    12/05/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    It's like they don't realize that the entire movie was non-scene pred within 24hrs of its release.

    The appropriate punishment would have simply been to hold them in the theater until they were the last ones and then release them, with no police escort, to the waiting horde of twilight fans.

    Also acceptable would have been forcing them to watch the movie on a constant loop A Clockwork Orange style.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    also, how come all the dudes in this movie look like chicks? has it really gone this far? do i have to wait 10 years for masculinity to come back into vogue?
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    Image of thirdchild thirdchild
    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: the fact that you used the word "vogue" should worry you. :P
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    really the SNAFU here is this - theater or no theater, are you seriously going to sit down in the future and watch yourself sing happy birthday? or are you going to put that on your facebook? and assume that other people would give two shits? or what?

    the only thing more inane than singing happy birthday... is recording it and replaying it later.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    I think all we need to remember is, vampires can't get boners.
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of mike563 mike563
    12/04/09

    @Shamoononon: These vampires are permanently hard skinned.......everywhere
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. promoted this comment mike563 was starred mike563 was unstarred
    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/04/09

    @mike563: So after 4 hours do they need to call their doctors?
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    Image of Calzo Calzo
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    I remember when the mute kids signed me happy birthday.
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    Image of Panzer23 Panzer23
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    Well at least this discounts you from being a vampire... still worried about the zombie though...
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/04/09

    @Panzer23: Why? You're a tank.
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of Panzer23 Panzer23
    12/04/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: sorry, was talking to Rosa, she's been posting really late as of recently.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    Shouldn't we reserve prison for the real monsters; like Stephenie Meyer?
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    Edited by Yerzriknot at 12/04/09 12:38 AM Yerzriknot was starred Yerzriknot was unstarred
    Image of Tyler Sebastian Tyler Sebastian
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: Actually, if you had actually watched the movie, you'd know that she is still a human at the end.

    Learn2differentiate.
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    Yerzriknot promoted this comment Tyler Sebastian was starred Tyler Sebastian was unstarred
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    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: It's not Stephenie Meyer who is the monster. It's Stephen King!!!
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    Yerzriknot promoted this comment Everyone likes me, even the Danish was starred Everyone likes me, even the Danish was unstarred
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    12/04/09

    @Everyone likes me, even the Danish: Dear god, kill it with fire!
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    12/04/09

    @Tyler Sebastian: Stephenie Meyer is the author...
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    Image of Everyone likes me, even the Danish Everyone likes me, even the Danish
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: No, that's a waste of fire!
    Drown it in the ocean (although, you would have the raising waterlevel then...)
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    12/04/09

    @Everyone likes me, even the Danish: She looks like a transsexual walrus.
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    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: Even though that's sad for transsexuals and walruses, i laughed :)
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    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: And I could actually provide you with factual responses if I actually read the gosh darned book.

    (Though I did watch the movie)
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    At first I was wondering how they would get footage of the movie while singing happy birthday. Were they singing in the middle of the movie?!

    Then I remembered that I'd heard there is a birthday party scene in the movie.

    Then I realized that I knew helpful facts about Twilight.

    Then I shot myself.
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    12/04/09

    @OCEntertainment: You, sir, are a paradox of evolution.
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    12/04/09

    @OCEntertainment: You're not welcome in civilized society anymore. Go live with the wolves, if they'll take you.
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    12/04/09

    @Gordonium: I get that a lot.
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    12/04/09

    @OCEntertainment: Your own personal zeitgeist, eh?
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    Image of krazydonutboy krazydonutboy
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    that pale fellow looks awfully upset about this
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    Image of puhsitch puhsitch
    12/04/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    I really really do not understand why anyone could be allowed to go to jail over recording copyrighted material, especially when there is no clear intention to profit from it. How are these people direct dangers to society?
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    Image of Hospitals in Hawaii? Hospitals in Hawaii?
    12/04/09

    @puhsitch: Yea, let's stick those filthy bootleggers with the rapists, thugs, and murderers. They'll fit right in and survive ehh? Crooked ass legal system...
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    Image of hhkim515 hhkim515
    12/04/09

    @puhsitch: They dont know that. You're just assuming. Any form of copying or bootlegging is illegal.

    It doesnt even matter what movie it is. The fact of the matter is that it is hard to draw the line of what is accepted and what is not. It is a slippery slope indeed.

    Imagine if this lady is found innocent. Then that sets a precedent for the next fool that shoots 3 minutes in a theater and gets caught.
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    12/04/09

    @hhkim515: No need for a slippery slope...just establish a penalty that makes more sense. And it seems like there's a pretty clear line that sits in front of "illegally profiting from copyrighted material."

    What's the assumption, by the way? That this girl is not a danger to society?
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    12/04/09

    @puhsitch: The penalty makes perfect sense for the crime. Criminal use of a motion picture exhibition should carry a serious penalty.

    Now if you want to get into an argument about what she should be charged with thats a whole different story and there is plenty of time at this point to change those charges (which there is little doubt will happen).

    I'm assuming the assumption (does that make an ass out of everyone or still just me?) was that she wasn't going to attempt to profit from it.
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    12/04/09

    @tande04: Yeah, I guess the penalty appropriateness comes down to philosophical differences. My opinion is that when a crime has no *inherent* negative effect on anyone else, and especially when there is no indication of nefarious intention, jail time shouldn't be on the table.

    And with the other piece, I think that assuming the assumption cancels it out, so I'd assume that we're all good again. Wait a second. Damn it, that didn't last too long.

    I don't think I was assuming anything in the first place, though, since she wasn't being charged for anything involving resale of the recording. I can be blamed me for assuming that she's not a serial killer, too!
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    12/04/09

    @puhsitch: The conversation is largely done now that its not on the main page (yet I still have 10 replies so maybe not) but I'm just going to say its not a philosophical difference. What you're really getting at is the charges applied which is a wildly different subject than we started out at.

    To be even more honest I'm not even sure where we started. I get going on one of these things and I just keep it rolling :p

    I think my point was that the penalty meets the crime that she was charged with. Saying that isn't the crime she should be charged with is completely different than saying the "system is flawed." Complaints can be amended charges can be changed. Throwing out what is actually a perfectly legitimate charge for a perfectly legitimate crime isn't the answer. She was charged with reselling it. Its inherent in the "criminal use of" part of the charge.

    I think I may have been making a point about the whole thing being an after she got caught cover at the time but that was a lot of caffeine, nicotine, and sleep (or lack there of) ago.
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    12/03/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    Psh. Why would you waste the time and money to SEE the movies (only to get sent to prison), when you could just read the abridged script online?

    [www.the-editing-room.com]
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    Image of Sandeep Murali Sandeep Murali
    12/03/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    Watching two minutes of Twilight is akin to spending a lifetime in jail. She got off light.
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    12/03/09

    @Sandeep Murali: No she didn't, cause obviously she watched the whole film first, and now she'd getting jail-time on top of that (not that she doesn't deserve it for watching Twilight in the first place)
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    Image of Sandeep Murali Sandeep Murali
    12/04/09

    @comics0026: Indeed.
    My bad!
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    12/03/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    They're protecting her best interests - after all, it is Twilight.

    Good thing they're locking her up so she can't harm her brain anymore by watching this garbage.
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    Image of ThisCharmingMan ThisCharmingMan
    12/03/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    One year per minute?
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/03/09

    @ThisCharmingMan: It's more of a but two get one free kind of a deal.
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    Image of Calzo Calzo
    12/03/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I would point out your error... but we would start editing again. And that would get messy.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/03/09

    @Calzo: Dammit, I wish I could spell, but no, I write but, not buy. And now it's too late to edit. You win this round Calzo, you win this round, but your day will come.
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    12/03/09

    In reply to Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
    .. why would you be singing DURING the movie?
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    Image of jessedybka jessedybka
    12/03/09

    @Benguin: The post says "signing" not "singing." I'm not sure if it's a typo.
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    tande04 promoted this comment jessedybka was starred jessedybka was unstarred
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    12/03/09

    @Benguin: Because people are inconsiderate dicks who are only concerned with their own instant gratification and aren't concerned that other people in the theater might have gone to see the movie and not hear their commentary or see whatever device screen they can't avoid looking at for 2 hours.

    There was a guy in front of me at Transformers trying to record it with his cellphone.

    He also should be in jail.
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    12/03/09

    @jessedybka: The linked article says singing.

    Though signing would be much more awesome and probably not near as annoying.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/03/09

    @tande04: Alternatively, Michael Bay could just explode his phone.
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    12/03/09

    @jessedybka: Oh, didn't catch that. But even so, seems weird to do it during the movie.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    12/03/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Eh as long as he was still holding it.
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    12/04/09

    @tande04: Dude, jail is for rapists, murderers, tangible valuable thieves, hardcore drug sellers and pedophiles. I'm not all for people like this, or the people that torrent illegal things, but it's a fucking JOKE. Jail is for real CRIMINALS. Fine her, take her car, ban her from every theater on the planet, take away her rights to see the next Twilights and take away her birthdays, but jailing someone for this is quite wrong. Put yourself in her shoes mate. It's wrong & the laws need to be updated.

    The guy that Huckabee set FREE was a killer, and then killed 4 cops after being PAROLED, yet this chick is facing prison time for a camera in a movie.

    Man, I love the US but sometimes Canada and England sound better and better.
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    12/04/09

    @otko: Jail is for winos, kids that steal candy bars, and the guy that pees in public places so he can have a cot and a hot for a night.

    Prison is for rapists, murders, etc.

    She will not go to prison over it. Of that I am quite sure. A couple of nights in an orange jumpsuit never killed anyone (well not usually).

    I would put myself in her shoes but I'm considerate enough to put shit like that in my pocket where it belongs so I never would be in her shoes.

    The theater owner got what he wanted which was some press really about nothing more than not being a dick in a theater which is hopefully a lesson a lot of people take to heart.

    And what law should be changed here? Nothing needs updated but people's consideration of others.
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    12/04/09

    @tande04: Yeah, I can't figure out what they were trying to record/accomplish.
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    12/04/09

    @tande04: you do realize that rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals get thrown in jail also along w/ 22 yr old blond girls who record bits of crappy movies. it's not prison but it's no picnic either and i wouldn't want to spend two nights in there
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    12/04/09

    @Weihovah: You do realize that rapists, murders and other violent criminals are probably not thrown in jail with a 22 year old blond girl that recorded bits of a crappy movie.

    The justice system certainly has its flaws but the people in charge of these things aren't nearly as stupid as TV and movies make them out to be.
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    12/04/09

    @tande04: fine, maybe not the rapists as they're usually males but they don't have separate cells for violent and non-violent criminals. they separate males and females so this girl could've been thrown into the same cell as a female murderer
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    12/04/09

    @Weihovah: I doubt that very much.
    Possible? Maybe. Probable? Not very likely.

    Like I said these people in general are much smarter then they're always portrayed on TV.

    On the off chance that this small Chicago suburb happened to lock up a violent murderer in the city jail before being moved to a more appropriate location I gaurantee you that some one is going to say "hey lets not put her in with the cute little blond that got a raw deal on that theater thing."
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    12/04/09

    @tande04: you may be right in this particular case as i don't know what a rosemont jail looks like. but i'm not going by what i see on tv. i've seen what a jail looks like (luckily it wasn't an extended stay) and i know people who've been locked up and who do the locking up
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