On to YouTube...
The first 4 episodes of this season's 24 were going to be released on a special DVD, of course the DVD leaked early and made it's way to torrent sites. Now, the guy they are going after isn't the guy who leaked the episodes, he is just one of the thousands of people who downloaded it, and thought it would be alright to upload it to youtube. I mean, youtube is littered with tons of copywrited material, if you get caught the worst that happens is they take down the videos and/or delete your account.
But now it seems they wanna make an example of this guy...
I kinda feel bad for him. You might wanna think twice about what you upload to youtube now.
The first 4 episodes of this season's 24 were going to be released on a special DVD, of course the DVD leaked early and made it's way to torrent sites. Now, the guy they are going after isn't the guy who leaked the episodes, he is just one of the thousands of people who downloaded it, and thought it would be alright to upload it to youtube. I mean, youtube is littered with tons of copywrited material, if you get caught the worst that happens is they take down the videos and/or delete your account.
But now it seems they wanna make an example of this guy...
Jorge Romero is charged with downloading the episodes of 24 from an unspecified source and posting them on LiveDigital.com eight days before the show's official release. Romero was tracked down by the FBI.
"We are grateful to the FBI and US Attorney's offices in Los Angeles for aggressively pursuing this matter," said 24 distributor 20th Century Fox.
"We hope it will serve as a powerful warning that uploading copyrighted TV shows and movies to the internet can be a crime with significant penalties and will be prosecuted as such.
"Video-hosting sites such as LiveDigital.com and YouTube are not copyright-free zones, and individuals who post episodes of television shows, particularly before they are broadcast for the first time, will face harsh civil and criminal sanctions."
Romero is being charged with "uploading copyrighted material to a publicly accessible computer network knowing the work was intended for commercial distribution".
The felony carries a statutory maximum sentence of three years in a federal prison.
I kinda feel bad for him. You might wanna think twice about what you upload to youtube now.