{"id":7645,"date":"2011-12-20T01:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T06:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2011-12-20T01:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T06:09:57","slug":"man-who-leaked-wolverine-movie-to-spend-a-year-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/man-who-leaked-wolverine-movie-to-spend-a-year-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Leaked “Wolverine” Movie To Spend A Year In Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does the name Gilberto Sanchez ring a bell? A couple years ago, he leaked a review copy of Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” movie to the world wide web. He was found out and prosecuted by the studio. He has now been sentenced and will serve a year in jail for illegally sharing the movie. His charges were of violating federal copyright laws.<\/p>\n

This press release from Deadline details the ordeal.<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2013 A New York man who admitted illegally uploading to the Internet a pirated, nearly final \u201cworkprint\u201d copy of the movie \u201cX-Men Origins: Wolverine\u201d was sentenced this afternoon to one year in federal prison.<\/p>\n

Gilberto Sanchez, 49, who resides in The Bronx and who used screen names that were variations on \u201cskillz,\u201d was sentenced by United States District Judge Margaret M. Morrow, who described the offense as \u201cextremely serious.\u201d In addition to the prison term, Judge Morrow imposed one year of supervised release and numerous computer restrictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal prison sentence handed down in this case sends a strong message of deterrence to would-be Internet pirates,\u201d said United States Attorney Andr\u00e9 Birotte Jr. \u201cThe Justice Department will pursue and prosecute persons who seek to steal the intellectual property of this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanchez \u201cuploaded the workprint more than one month before theatrical release, he has a prior conviction for a similar offense, he had been regularly uploading pirated movies for four or five years, and did not appear remorseful after charges were brought,\u201d prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.<\/p>\n

Sanchez pleaded guilty in March to one count of uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial distribution. When he pleaded guilty, Sanchez admitted that he uploaded a \u201cworkprint\u201d copy of the copyrighted \u201cX-Men Origins: Wolverine\u201d to www.Megaupload.com in March 2009, about one month before the motion picture was released in theaters. After uploading the Wolverine movie, Sanchez publicized the upload by posting links on two publicly available websites, so that anyone who clicked on the links would have access to the movie and be able to download it. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation owns the copyright to the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Fox was able to get defendant\u2019s Wolverine Workprint removed from his Megaupload account within approximately one day, by then, the damage was done and the film had proliferated like wildfire throughout the Internet, resulting in up to millions of infringements,\u201d prosecutors said in court documents.<\/p>\n

This case is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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