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Movie Critic Caught Selling Screeners to Pirates - [crime-law]
07:09 AM EDT - Jun,24 2006 - (2 comments)

Movie critic Paul Sherman has been busted for selling DVD screeners to pirate groups. Over the years he sold 117 discs for $4714. He now faces a $250000 fine and 3 years in prison:
Variety reported this morning that Sherman has been busted for selling over 100 screeners to warez groups, organizations that distribute software (and, obviously, movies) for download. From what I can gather, these groups are incredibly organized, and do business less for profit than to make things available to their users (warez users, feel free to help us out in the comments -- I'm basically going on the wikipedia entry). Over a few years, Sherman was paid a grand total of $4714 for 117 discs. And, now that he's been caught, he could be fined up to $250,000 and spend three years in prison. Uh huh. And this is worth the risk why, again?
What he did was wrong, and I think he should be in some sort of trouble... but $250,000 and 3 years in jail (perhaps per offense)? I think that's WAY too much...

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