{"id":76739,"date":"2009-12-11T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091211\/1223357309.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-11T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:31:00","slug":"prosecutors-come-to-their-senses-drop-charges-against-girl-arrested-for-incidental-new-moon-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/76739","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Come To Their Senses; Drop Charges Against Girl Arrested For Incidental &#8216;New Moon&#8217; Filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a ton of publicity about the young woman who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091203\/1531507185.shtml\">jailed<\/a> and facing felony charges, because she caught snippets of the film <i>New Moon<\/i> while filming parts of her sister&#8217;s birthday party.  The outrage over this has been loud and widespread &#8212; causing backlash against the movie theater and the movie studio that put out the movie.  Even the director of the movie was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/0003387283.shtml\">complaining<\/a> about the arrest and prosecution.  Realizing that this was a bad situation all around, it looks like prosecutors have come to their senses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3i719dc07a203bf2ec725765d2127edb3d\" >and dropped the charges against the young woman<\/a>, though we still have the same ridiculous law in place that made this situation possible.  Shouldn&#8217;t we also be looking to change that right about now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091211\/1223357309.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091211\/1223357309.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091211\/1223357309&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=cee7f2430290339bcdd983718be11d8e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=cee7f2430290339bcdd983718be11d8e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=S-82v-bFeHE:Lg6d6PxnpgA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=S-82v-bFeHE:Lg6d6PxnpgA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=S-82v-bFeHE:Lg6d6PxnpgA:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/S-82v-bFeHE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a ton of publicity about the young woman who was jailed and facing felony charges, because she caught snippets of the film New Moon while filming parts of her sister&#8217;s birthday party. The outrage over this has been loud and widespread &#8212; causing backlash against the movie theater and the movie studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}