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    Movie Company Files Federal Piracy Suit Against Tri-State Man

    A DVD that retails for $21.99 could cost a local man more than $100,000, News 5's John London reported. Russell Lee is either a slick film pirate or an unwitting victim of someone who fits that description.


     Paramount, which distributes "Coach Carter," presents an unflattering picture of him, saying he not only obtained the movie illegally, but that he uploaded it to an online system called eDonkey so others could steal it, too.


     "I don't even know what they're talking about," Lee said. "I didn't do it." Paramount has looked at all four computers in Lee's home, alleging he had one of them cleaned to erase evidence. The company has filed a federal lawsuit against the Blue Ash man.

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    How the heck did they get ahold of his computers...

    damn this is getting worse than the "war on drugs" or the "war on terror" ... the "war on sharing..."

    Has quite the ring to it.

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    It's getting worse because technically its a war on greedy corporations, and we already know who the government sides with. Sad.

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