X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from geek.com: "In 2009, a copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way on to Megaupload a month before it was due to appear in movie theaters. The so-called 'workprint' copy was unfinished — so unfinished in fact, anyone viewing this copy saw green screens and wires attached to actors used to help with the more acrobatic movements during action scenes. Hugh Jackman even commented on the leak, describing it as like getting a 'Ferrari without a paint job.' The person who decided to share the movie illegally was tracked down, however. He is a 49-year-old New Yorker by the name of Gilberto Sanchez, and he's just been prosecuted." The New York Times' 2010 interview with Sanchez is a good read, too.

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Ferrari without a paint job

[Anonymous Coward]

As far as I know the Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang comes without a paint job and it's sold as a good thing.

It is also a mortal sin to paint a DeLorean. So sometimes the lack of paint job actually increases its value