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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Re:Well, it's only lawful

[Henry V .009]

19 CD-ROM disks -- value $9.00 at Best Buy

2,000 high-quality digital images -- value $0.00 they're just bytes

Hundreds of video files of "Episode II," from concept shots to final clips, valued at $100,000 -- value $0.00, they are talking about computer files, right?

About 113 storyboard images - or sketches outlining scenes from the film - with handwritten notes by Lucas, valued at more than $100,000 -- now this is hard to value. Were they digital or dead tree? Were these the only copies? Given the inflated claims for the other items, I'd be skeptical.

Total: $9.00