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Leak Star Wars, Go To Jail
Shea O'Brien Foley, a former production assistant at LucasFilm, has been arrested on 13 counts of theft of Star Wars material from LucasFilm worth $450,000. The police investigation was launched after an early Attack of the Clones cut was leaked to and reviewed by Aint It Cool News in March, two months before it hit theaters. Other than the fact that Ain't It Cool News and Harry Knowles aren't being charged with anything, police aren't saying much. Apparently, Jedi mind tricks didn't work on the arresting officers. Update: 10/14 23:51 GMT by T : Michael Singer points to an article on internet.com with more depth.
You've done it now. Don't you know that all of us at Slashdot can justify ANY type of action with ANY type of media? Lemme whip out my magic 8 ball of "why I pirated this movie"..(SHAKING)..ahh, haven't seen that one in a while: "I wasn't going to pay to see it in the theatre anyways, so I can download it because Lucas isn't losing money either way"..any oldie but goody. Maybe next time you'll think twice before you bring your "laws" in here. I mean honestly, I didn't like the last Star Wars movie, so I have to be entitled to download burn this one to divx for compensation, right? It's only fair.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
I was unfortunate enough to be next to Harry Knowles once at a premiere. The man either doesn't shower or does and doesn't use soap.
Funny story. OTOH, betcha it wouldn't have worked if these guys were black, eh?