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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.
..was not with him...
Of course they didn't work. The guy's not a JEDI! You can't just pull something like that off, without years and years of training. Sheesh.
He should be put into jail. He broke the law!
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Luke is Vader's son!
man, how many star wars movies aren't out yet?
That's why Lucas wants all the actors to be computerized.
After he achieves that, he'll start working on making all production assistants robotic.
Is it a certain a percentage of the revenues? I mean, if the movie had proved to be a complete flop and would have generated negative revenue for Lucas Film. Say minus $420 million dollars, should Lucas Film actually pay the ex-employer for stealing it :))
im only 5 years old and read yor post and the guy is studid and should steal a light saber insted.
And after he's found guilty, I wonder if he'll be thrown in some sort of pit containing some sort of monster and from which he couldn't possibly escape.
Are you trying to tell me that the actors in the last two StarWars films were REAL?!?!
After he achieves that, he'll start working on making all production assistants robotic.
He'd better be careful going that far, however - if he's not careful, he'll make himself obselete?
No more movies like The Matrix - too much slandering of the computers!
What are you talking about? Jedi mind tricks can and do work on arresting officers, even without years of training.
From the Marin Newspaper:
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Foley agreed to allow Webb to look through the items at his home and when they arrived at his Lakeville Circle townhouse the investigator saw "tons of 'Star Wars' items," Webb said in the affidavit. Foley turned over numerous items, including 25 CDs with images of the film, three videotapes of "Episode I" voice-over tests, 115 storyboard image strips and a hard disk drive with downloaded photo images.
Someone send a copy of this story to the RIAA and MPAA. THIS is stealing. Someone has been deprived of property! Throw the book at this clown.
Gotta run and see if maybe he put some of these sound effects on GNUtella before he got busted. I need a clean light-sabre
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He stole Fizzy-lifting drinks! Now the room must be washed and scrubbed. He wins nothing! Good day to you sir! I said Good day!
...Lucas wants all the actors to be computerized.
As opposed to wooden, like in AotC?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
If he's going to jail, I bet he wishes he'd leaked a better movie...
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I absolutely *refuse* to watch CAM versions of movies that have been put on the net. I would rather wait for the DiVX copy of the DVD or the screener.
Be ye steadfast in yar principles, video pirate. I tip me hat to ye, arr..
That's because it was a moving picture violation.
*ducks*
He better switch that golden parachute for a golden chasity belt, so he won't get ass raped while in the slammer. :)
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I was an assitant production manager for the "Dude, Where's My Car?" project and I got a bonus of $450k for leaking copies to the public.
Pirates, nothing, the movie industry needs to keep an eye on the Irish.
:)
Hmm. Reversing this, Im suddenly seeing the those Lucky Charms commercials as an analogy for the MPAA vs video pirates.
Right, but if he wants glowing reviews after the last Star Wars movie, he's going to have to make robotic film reviewers, too.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Of course if he keeps the law suits up he may need a CGI audience as well.
He broke his contracts and betrayed his employer. Not content to be merely dishonorable, he also proved to be mind-bogglingly stupid by posting messages on a forum about that, using the handle "Shay" (which rather strongly suggests his own name... a problem considering that it undoubtably helped narrow the list of suspects rather sharply).
The movie revenue is irrelevant with respect to the morality of the man's actions. Mr. Lucas could have served up two hours of Jar-Jar making pornographic hand-shadow gestures and there still would have been a ridiculous amount of buzz about the movie, and probably profit... but that would have justified harsh criticism and dismal sales, not breach of contract and leaking of material.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
"What the hell ever happened to someone just being a "crook"?
He had the tapes erased and he was President so they let him go."Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Sentence him to have Harry Knowles sit on his face while watching a sneak preview of Episode 3.