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FBI goes after guy who leaked premiere of 24

by Anna Johns, posted Jun 4th 2007 1:27PM

24The FBI has charged a man with illegally uploading the first four episodes of last season's 24 to LiveDigital.com before the episodes even made air. Chicago's Jorge Romero, 24, could face three years in prison if he is convicted of the felony charge.

According to the FBI, Romero isn't even the original bootlegger. He reportedly found the first four episodes on Mininova.org and uploaded them to LiveDigital and then posted about his uploads on Digg, which got a lot of traffic. The FBI is still hunting for the person who originally "stole" the episodes from Fox. Agents suspect the culprit is somewhere in the chain of DVD distribution. This past season, Fox released the first four episodes of 24 on DVD immediately after they premiered on the network. Those DVDs were sent to distributors several weeks before the season premiered.

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Kesey

FBI agents assigned to cases like this is like the equivalent to Police Officers on crossing guard duty. While these Police officers protect our children from death, the FBI is there to protect the assets of television networks.

Maybe if this War on Terror ever ends, we can devote more resources to putting an end to internet piracy.

June 04 2007 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bash

The use of abbrevations usually is reciprocal to the braincells of the poster.

Evidence: see #1

Also I don't quite get what the big deal is. The episodes were available six days prior to the TV airings. Anyone who bought the DVDs did so anyway and if not they'd just downloaded the files one day after the DVD release with the choice of downloading the TV episodes that were released in pairs of 2 (2 sunday, 2 monday, about 3 hours after they aired on TV).

They are just investigating because somebody broke into the DVD-production-chain. That's a problem considering that movie releases could be put on mininova before they sell and THAT is the real deal about this. They want to protect their Movie-DVD line.

June 04 2007 at 4:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RichardAM

So deliciously ironic.

June 04 2007 at 2:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Teddy

Dammit, Chloe, this guy isn't even the original bootlegger! The real culprit is... DAD?!

June 04 2007 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pete

what a moron!!! u download u seed and thats it. if u wanna b xtra carefull u use peerguardian. what a pendejo!!!1

June 04 2007 at 1:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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