Archive for August, 2007

Follow-up: Teen “pirate” at Regal pleads guilty

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 August 23, 2007parker

Jhannet Sejas, who sparked our Regal boycott, pleaded guilty yesterday to “one count of unlawfully recording a motion picture in violation of state law.” She got off relatively easy, receiving a $71 fine (she was facing a max of $2,500 and a year in jail). However, the principle still stands that this was […]

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Boycott Regal Cinemas

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 August 8, 2007Fred

Free Culture @ NYU is joining the call for a chain wide boycott of Regal Cinemas over their draconian punishment of a 19 year-old girl caught taping 20 seconds of the Transformers film. We demand that Regal Cinemas drop all charges against Jhannet Sejas, and that the entertainment group issue a full apology to the […]

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