Jun 26 2006

Film critic pleads guilty in movie copyright case

  • Written by soulxtc
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A former freelance film critic for the Boston Herald and past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics is to be sentenced in October after pleading guilty in a San Jose, Calif., court last month to aiding in copyright infringement, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Paul Sherman , 46, of Malden, sold on eBay copies of DVDs he had received to review, including “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”

One man who bought Sherman’s DVDs put several of them on the Internet, where they could be viewed before their commercial release, the Chronicle reported Thursday.

Sherman, who pleaded guilty in US District Court to aiding and abetting criminal copyright infringement, told the Chronicle that he “was kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

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  1. cjules13

    That’s just retarded… like they can’t trace that!

    And for what? $20?

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