p2pnet - rss feed: Man faces jail for uploading ‘24′
p2pnet.net news:- A 24-year-old Chicago man is facing up to three years in jail for uploading episodes of the Fox’s 24 TV show, starring Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer.
The FBI, long an unpaid copyright cop for the music and movie cartels, charged Jorge Romero with posting four 24 episodes, “he discovered in January at an unspecified location online and posting them on LiveDigital.com eight days before their primetime premiere,” says a Reuters/Hollywood Reporter item.
“We are grateful to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s offices in Los Angeles for aggressively pursuing this matter,” it has Fox saying.
Fox should, of course, also be thanking US taxpayers who unwittingly and unknowingly funded the FBI/Fox corporate bust.
In January, “Fox served both LiveDigital and YouTube with a subpoena demanding they disclose the identity of the user who had uploaded episodes of ‘24′ and ‘The Simpsons’,” says the story.
LiveDigital Comply, and so did YouTube although it wasn’t named in the FBI’s complaint.
“Romero is not accused of placing the episodes on the Internet, but facilitating their distribution once they were already put there by an unspecified party,” say Reuters and the Hollywood Reporter .
“Romero admitted to the FBI in an April interview that he had found the episodes online.”
Also See:
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter -FBI charges Chicago man with “24″ piracy, June 3, 2007
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June 5th, 2007 at 11:00 am
What the hell. Since when is dl a show that is freely available on tv a crime?
June 5th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
This is a joke. The only reason why the FBI went after this guy is because he was stupid enough to provide LiveDigital with his real name upon signing up, and probably didn’t use a proxy to upload these episodes. The FBI only goes after easy targets, despite what they may say.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
The F.B.I. will only look into cases where damages are $5000 or over, so they claim. I don’t see how uploading a n episode of “24″ even comes to that much. Now if some old lady is conned out of 15,000 of her savings, good luck into getting the FBI to look into that. The most most dangerous enemy that the people of the United States faces is the government of the United States!
June 5th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I remember when those episodes hit the web. Someone came across the dvds of the first 4 episodes a week before they were to be aired on tv and sold as a 4 ep dvd the day after air date. Someone wanted a copy and the easiest way to transfer it was by torrent. The name was named something basic and was uploaded in the “other” section, but along came a mod found out what it really was and change the title and put it in the tv section. lol.
Well it was faster to transfer when thousands of others hop on the torrent. I just cant see why people would take it and upload it to another site.
I would rather see the feds looking out for the security of The US instead of tracking down people who download something then upload it somewhere else……or are they gonna start saying pirated dvds and music piracy are controlled by terrorists? I know they like saying the gangs and mob profit off of pirated movies, music software,