Can you watch New Moon online for free, even without downloading? No. The hunt to watch New Moon online for free without download is being driven by websites falsely claiming they have streaming video of the Twilight film.

They don’t. The only place you can see New Moon this weekend is in a movie theatre.

New Moon is the latest victim of fake entertainment and sports stream claims for 2009. As profiled this year on LALATE, 2009 has seen the growth of fake celebrity deaths stories and new entry fake celebrity streams stories.

Whether it’s a false Miley Cyrus death report or fake claim that you can watch Carrie Prejean’s tape streaming online, the trend has grown substantially since this summer.

In early fall, fake stream stories were dominated by sporting events. Among the biggest false “watch free stream” stories were the fall FIFA world cup qualifying soccer matches. Terra.com’s coverage of Mexico’s qualifying matches was one of the few cases in which the steam was online and free. From there, fake UFC stream video stories grew.

Just this month alone, fake “watch online free” reports have included the Manny Pacquiao boxing match – which wasn’t even on basic tv and restricted to PPV – and the Carrie Prejean tape – which to date has never even been released to the public.

You can’t watch New Moon online for free. But you can in a movie theatre this weekend.