Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 28, 2005 @08:32AM from the tommy-we-got-hosed dept.

ewhac writes "Earlier this year, an advance copy of 'Star Wars: Episode III' was released to the Internet a day before the film's official worldwide opening. Yesterday, the US Attorney handed down charges to the eight people believed responsible. Using forensic markers embedded in the advance-release "screeners," law enforcement were able to track down the leaked copy and the people who came in contact with it. As a result of the early release, Episode III only managed to earn $380 million at the box office."

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Um by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-28 09:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Explain to me again how these people deserve to go to jail, but noone at Microsoft has done even a day in jail for being convicted of illegally maintaining a monopoly for a decade?

Microsoft cheated the rest of the tech world (people like you and me) out of hundreds of billions, but apparently we aren't as important.