James Delahunty
23 Feb 2007 14:42
A man faces up to three years in prison after he admitted to uploading an Oscar Screener copy of the movie "Flushed Away" on the Internet. 27 year-old Salvador Nunez Jr. obtained a DVD Screener copy of the movie from his sister, who is an Oscar voter. The pirated copy of the movie was tracked back to her from watermarking used on Oscar screeners.
Nunez admitted to also uploading "Happy Feet", however, only Flushed Away was found on his Hard Disk Drive when the FBI investigated. Movie screeners regularly leak onto the Internet, especially around Oscar season. Back in 2004, actor Carmine Caridi was fined $300,000 after giving screener copies to a friend, Russel Sprague.
Sprague was busted for uploading several copies of the movies on the Internet but died in prison in March 2005 while waiting to be sentenced.
Source:
Betanews