Hollywood insider in upload scandal
p2pnet.net news:- Hollywood’s main man, MPAA boss Dan Glickman, is doing his best to convince the world his employers, the immensely wealthy major studios, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, are being ruined by file sharers who camcord movies in Montreal, Canada, and then upload them.
In his mind-bending diatribes, he always conveniently forgets to mention Hollywood insiders have starring roles in getting movies online.
Now, “A man who allegedly uploaded a copy of the film ‘Flushed Away’ onto the Internet after getting a copy from an Oscar voter faces a felony charge,” says Associated Press, continuing:
“Salvador Nunez Jr., 27, was charged with copyright infringement and faces up to three years in prison if convicted. He was scheduled to appear in court March 1. Prosecutors said he obtained a copy of the movie after it was sent in advanced to his sister, an Oscar voter and member of The International Animated Film Society.”
But Nunez isn’t alone. Far from it. A now famous AT&T Labs report says of a total of 285 movies researchers sampled on the p2p networks, 77% were leaked by industry ‘insiders’, and Mel Gibson’s Icon company sued a Hollywood post-production house for the unwanted online appearance of his Passion movie.
Russell Sprague got 130 movies from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member Carmine Caridi, who was ordered to pay Warner Bros a paltry $300,000 for providing Sprague, who died in an LA jail cell, with the copies.
When Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, showed up online, “There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith,” MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Dan ‘Jedi’ Glickman raged.
However, it wasn’t kids. It was insiders. Marc Hoaglin and friends were charged with leaking Revenge of the Sith, having appropriated it from a post- production facility.
And there are plenty of other similar examples.
In this latest revelation of Hollywood culpability, according to the FBI, “Nunez acknowledged he uploaded ‘Flushed Away’ and the Oscar-nominated film ‘Happy Feet’ onto the Internet, court documents said. However, investigators only found a copy of ‘Flushed Away’ in his computer hard drive.”
Also See:
camcord movies in Montreal – Ellis Jacob Meets the Pirates!, February 13, 2007
Associated Press – Man charged with uploading movie to Web, February 22, 2007
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