I know, I know, it sounds bad at first, but as it turns out, after Samantha Tumpach (22, Chicago) was arrested for apparently "recording New Moon", they viewed the recording and it contains talking, laughing, and it not even really a full shot of the film. It almost seems as if the camera was recording on accident. The only part she owned up to, was the fact that she did record some previews to give to her sister as a birthday gift... Hmm... strange?Here is what Chris Weitz had to say about the incident...
“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 e-mail.
“It was never my intention to record the movie,” Tumpach said. “You can hear me talking the whole time.”
Weitz questioned whether her arrest was justified.
“There is, needless to say, a difference between trying to protect the copyright of a film and making an unfair example of someone who clearly seems not to have any intentions towards video piracy,” Weitz wrote.
He said he had contacted the studio that released the film, Summit Entertainment, to express his concern about her arrest, but he acknowledged there’s probably little he can do to influence the outcome of her case.
“I am not sure what effect I would have on the case,” he wrote, noting “the film is, after all, not my property.”
