Movie ‘pirate’ maVen dead from drug overdose
p2pnet view P2P | MPAA: MPAA-style vengeance has reached Canada, posted p2pnet last month, going on:
“Montreal’s Gerami Adam, 27, aka maVen, will spend two-and-a-half-months in jail as the first Canadian to suffer for breaking Hollywood-inspired copyright laws.”
Now Adam is dead from an apparent drug overdose only a week after completing his sentence.
His body was found in in an apartment he shared with his girlfriend in Montreal, says 24H, from whence came the pic on the right.
“Adam began taking morphine in jail”, his girlfriend, Cynthia Laporte, “told a Montreal newspaper, and she believes he took drugs just before his death”, says the Montreal Gazette.
He was also taking prescribed anti-depressants and tranquilizers, says 24H, adding it isn’t clear if Adam’s death was deliberate or accidental.
But “It’s obviously not a natural death”, the story has his lawyer, Richard Brouillard, saying, adding, “There will be at least an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.”
Lobbied the government
“Authorities” said Adam copied and sold pirated versions of Invincible, and How to Eat Fried Worms in August and September 2006, shortly after both movies premiered in North American theatres, according to the CBC.
“During its investigation, the FBI called Adam Canada’s biggest movie pirate, and labelled Montreal the epicentre of film pirating”, it said, adding:
“Hollywood’s most powerful studios threatened to pull their films from Canadian theatres and lobbied the government to tighten copyright laws.”
At the time, filming movies in theatres was legal in Canada.
Only distribution was against the law.
Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures “claim Canada is a hot-bed of file sharing, failing to mention a significant number of features which wind up on the P2P networks come from Hollywood insiders“, said p2pnet in a post on Adam’s sentencing.
“Nor is this anything new”, we said, going on:
“Soon after Hollywood — which consistently reports eye-popping revenues, each year better than the last — first began to claim it was being ‘devastated’ by file sharers, AT&T labs released Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process.
“The AT&T report said of 285 movies researchers sampled on the P2P networks, 77% were leaked by industry ‘insiders’,” [our emphasis].
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p2pnet – Hollywood nails Gerami Adam, March 16, 2010
24H – Le pirate de films Gérémi Adam retrouvé mort à Montréal, April 6, 2010
Montreal Gazette – Drug overdose suspected in death of movie pirate, April 7, 2010
CBC – Movie pirate gets 2½ months in jail, March 16, 2010
Hollywood insiders – Hollywood bans Canada, May 8, 2007
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April 7th, 2010 at 10:06 am
RIP maVen. Next time I go paintballing or download a TS I will think of you (I have a similar model WGP autococker pictured above, I also suffer from anxiety and depression). My heart goes out to your loved ones in this difficult time. I wish you could have received more mental health help. This is truly a tragedy for his family.
Recommend others lend their support to his GF Cynthia Laporte of montreal on facebook.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
28, such a shame.
This man put every other release group to shame (if it was him). Never been TS’s of that quality and hasn’t been since going down. He had a talent.
…How Hollywood killed a kid. Do you think they actually suffered due to him? Not.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
So we should count this as a murder perpetrated by the entertainment industry and we shall respond accordingly.
September 30th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
He may be gone , but he will never be forgotten .