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33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater

Posted by Soulskill on from the know-when-to-fold-'em dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Philip Danks used a camcorder to record Fast & Furious 6 in a U.K. cinema. Later, he shared it via bittorrent and allegedly sold physical copies. Now, he's been sentenced to 33 months in prison for his actions. "In Court it was claimed that Danks' uploading of Fast 6 resulted in more than 700,000 downloads, costing Universal Pictures and the wider industry millions of pounds in losses." Danks was originally told police weren't going to take any action against him, but he unwisely continued to share the movie files after his initial detainment with authorities.

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  1. The real crime here by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is bothering to upload a camrip. Just wait for a DVD release or at least a leaked screener copy!

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    1. Re:The real crime here by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

      No the real crime is that he encouraged people to watch Fast & Furious 6 .

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    2. Re:The real crime here by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 4, Funny

      "The dude made the choice. No one put a gun to his head and told him to patiently hold the camcorder up for 2 hours ..."

      Are you 100% certain about that? This is Fast & Furious 6 we're talking about here.

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    3. Re:The real crime here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      > Sounds like you're a violent sociopath. Maybe we should cane you if you like that kind of punishment so much.

      A good beating administered by the authorities in a controlled and relatively safe environment will likely do FAR MUCH LESS damage than being locked up with animals and sociopaths for 3 years.

      You simply don't have any clue. You can't relate do doing any kind of hard time. You probably can't even relate do doing a week or a weekend in the local lockup.

      Plus you can even have a machine do it with precisely calibrated force for each stroke to maximize the pain but minimize the long term health risk. I for one, can see no downside to imbuing machines with an AI trained to inflict maximum pain on humans as it's zeroth law.

  2. Re:We need to have no laws at all by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need to have no laws at all

    Good luck enforcing that!

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  3. There are 6 of them now? by Travis+Mansbridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just surprised 700,000 people wanted to see Fast and the Furious 6.