p2pnet news | Movies:- It was almost worth downloading The Simpsons movie just to get a clip of the intro which has Bart chalking “I will not illegally download this movie” on the famous detention blackboard.

And a p2pnet spoof on the subject collected more than 9,000 reads.

We said Bart had been nailed the downloading the new The Simpsons movie. But now, someone really has been clobbered for uploading it.

“The first known pirated copy of ‘The Simpsons Movie’ to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police Friday, authorities said,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

“Police ordered a 21-year-old Sydney man to appear in a Sydney court in October when he will be formally charged, the Australian Federal Police said. Details of the likely charge and penalties have not been made public.”

And behind it was, of course, Hollywood’s MPAA and its kopyright kops.

thein”The Motion Picture Association industry group said the investigation involved News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox movie studio, Australian police and the private investigation group Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft,” says the story.

Says Mobilised:

The copy at the centre of the allegations was alegedly uploaded to an unnamed video streaming site from a Sydney location within 72 hours of its release, said AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) in a statement.

Within two hours of being uploaded to the US site the film was spotted and removed, but by then it had already been accessed more than 3,000 times. One of those subsequent copies found itself onto a peer-to-peer network and was copied a further 110,000 times.

In one breath, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney claim downloads are having a serious effect on their bottom line and also forcing industry workers onto the streets. And in the next, they’re reporting profits at levels never before seen.

Of course, the Aussie upload was far from being the only one and various other versions were online almost at the same time as the official release.

.Slashdot it!

Also See:

p2pnet spoof – MPAA sues Bart Simpson: ‘downloader’, July 30, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald – Pirated ‘Simpsons’ Tracked to Australian, August 18, 2007
Mobilised – Doh! Phone Pirate Could Get Five Years, August 18, 2007
never before seen – Hollywood reports record revenues, March 6, 2007

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