No Recording for You

The panelists at the FCC discussion told a story about a teenage girl getting arrested for filming a 20 second clip of Transformers in order to encourage her brother to go see the movie. I almost didn't believe it, or at least felt like the anecdote must have been exaggerated in some way, but Dave Weigel looked it up and it all checks out: "Sejas faces up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 when she goes to trial this month in the July 17 incident."

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/08/no-recording-for-you/45456/