The first known pirated copy of “The Simpsons Movie” to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home in Australia.
According to Australian authorities said, the first known pirated copy of “The Simpsons” to be uploaded to the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police earlier today.
Police ordered a 21-year-old Sydney man to appear in a Sydney court in October when he will be formally charged, the Australian Federal Police said. Details of the likely charge or charges and fines have yet to be made made public.
The MPAA said the investigation involved News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox movie studio, Australian police and the private investigation group Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.
The MPAA said the illegal “Simpsons” copy was the first on the Internet and was recorded by a cell phone in a Sydney movie theater on July 26, hours before its release in most of the world.
“Within 72 hours of making and uploading this unauthorized recording, AFACT had tracked it to other streaming sites and P2P (peer-to-peer) systems, where it had been illegally downloaded in excess of 110,000 times, and in all probability, copied and sold as a pirate DVD all over the world,” AFACT executive director Adrianne Pecotic said.
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I feel sorry for that man. They’re gonna try and make an example of him. Plus if he filmed it on a cell phone imagine how crappy the quality must have been.. I wonder which CAM release is from his material.
Oh dear lord they put forth a lot of effort to find the sole person responsible for this and they are going to try and burn him at the stake; as Freeloader said he is going to be an example. This is horrible – and why i stay away from super fresh releases.
Wow that’s great! Can you imagine a recording you made one night in a theater with your phone spreading out all over the net within a day? So small into so big that’s awesome..
That’s if this is really the way it happened. They might not really have the real seeder or even someone who was involved at all. The opposition often works woof in absolutes showing confidence in their position.
What an idiot. Stupid people should be burned alive like this guy.
Weren’t you the one that was realy big on the “release” of grindcore Mels?
I think that was Grindhouse http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462322
Ah grindhouse how foolish of me but the point is still the same no?
That would suck because tht copy was sooooooo sh*t. And he is gonna get in sh*t for it.
Too bad the movie was idiotic
I wonder who put the DVD version on Usenet?
it is too late for the industry because the movie is out on the internet
Okay I have a question… what does “in all probability” mean where producing a pirated DVD is concerned? And how could they possibly make such an assertion stick in court?
Utterly ridiculous.
Hes a good man and I fully salute him. Thank the goddess we have men like him keeping P2P alive and well. Pirate away boys.
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