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.

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Jedi Mind Tricks

[scrote-ma-hote]

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.

Re:Jedi Mind Tricks

[BollocksToThis]

But he put it on his census form!

Re:Jedi Mind Tricks

[ackthpt]

"This IS the droid we're looking for!"

"D'oh!"

Punish the lawbreakers!

[Anonymous Coward]

He should be put into jail. He broke the law!

I need an mp3 copy of Black Sabbath Paranoid. Could you send me a copy?

thanks

spoiler!

[Anonymous Coward]

Luke is Vader's son!

13 accounts?

[Jonny Ringo]

man, how many star wars movies aren't out yet?

Re:Movie pirates

[scott1853]

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.

How do you calculate the damage?

[jukal]

was arrested last week and charged with 13 counts of felony for the theft of an estimated $450,000 worth of "Star Wars"-related material from his ex-employer

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 :))

Re:How do you calculate the damage?

[Em Emalb]

"Is it a certain a percentage of the revenues? "

Nah, It was RLGN. Random Lawyer Generated Numbers. They take a number three times higher than the average guy not named Lucas can make in 4 years and go with that. Thought this was common knowledge? :)

Oh, but they CAN (Was Re:Jedi Mind Tricks)

[danish]

What are you talking about? Jedi mind tricks can and do work on arresting officers, even without years of training.

Let's get this straight....

[VivianC]

From the Marin Newspaper:

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 .WAV file.

Re:Movie pirates

[sharkey]

...Lucas wants all the actors to be computerized.

As opposed to wooden, like in AotC?

Ouch!

[nightsweat]

If he's going to jail, I bet he wishes he'd leaked a better movie...

Re:Movie pirates

[0xdeadbeef]

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..

Re:DMV Cops?

[llamalicious]

That's because it was a moving picture violation.

*ducks*