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UPDATE: Here’s the indictment…
Remember when Fox’s Wolverine was leaked onto the Internet and there were all those wild rumors that this was an inside job? (One even blamed Rupert Murdoch!) Now the FBI has arrested a New York man indicted for illegally distributing pirated copies of the movie. The FBI said in a statement today that 47-year-old Gilberto Sanchez was arrested at his Bronx home early this morning after he was indicted December 10th by a Los Angeles federal grand jury for violation of federal copyright law. He’s expected to be arraigned today. The indictment, unsealed after Wednesday’s arrest, accuses Sanchez of uploading the copyrighted X-Men Origins: Wolverine to an Internet site last spring. He faces a possible three years in prison and $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or gross loss attributable to the offense. Here is Fox’s statement: “We are supportive of the FBI’s actions and we will continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement to identify and prosecute any individuals who steal our movies.”
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I haven’t seen this latest X-Men installment – not online, not in theaters, and not on DVD – but I have a lot of friends who lost work these last few years because of piracy, so I’m inclined to weigh in on this topic. The movie industry isn’t suffering because one movie got pirated, but rather because the majority of movies get pirated. This despite the fact that I can wait a few months and rent a film from a vending machine in front of my local 7/11 for a buck. So an entire industry is looking for ways to make cheaper movies now because they have to mitigate the risk of lost revenue through piracy; they’re cutting back on epic stories, international locations, special effects, jobs…
I hope more SillyGillies are caught and sent to prison.
So many people seem to feel entitled to download films. (I hear more men than women, no surprise there.)
WRONG!
Its not a right to be able to see these movies free, this is a crime. This does hurt people who work in this industry.
Keep lying to yourself, you have a serious moral glitch.
I just want 2 set the record straight here because alot of comments are wrong. 1st of all, I didn’t profit from uploading this movie. I bought it on the street from a Korean. They sell movies all over. I ripped and uploaded it free. It wasn’t mine 2 begin with so who am I to charge anything. I know no1 at Hollywood. I never been to California but was about to be put on a plane yesterday and bought there as an example. I copped a plea quickly and bonded out on $50,000. Now the sentencing phase will come in2 play. I’ve never been arrested for anything like this and truly regret the day I bought that print off of that guy. All E-mails are welcomed. fall guy?? Yeah. That could be. But I’m no PIRATE.
Well while they’ve got the pad out, how about a couple for the people who *made* the piece of crap?
i think all of that is a load of crap because how many people do we not have that download millions of movies and have any stop ask where did they get it from may they should go after and arrest the ones actually get the movies and publish it in the internet and plus they all get sum out of it, it hurts to see and know that a good person like gill is having the worst time of his life why don’t they go after real criminals and child molesters have them do the time they should and you never see this people going after the Chinese people selling the same crap of movies in train daily so please fox and the FBI get a life because that what everyone is trying to do one way or another we have to survive.