A computer programmer who filmed Fast and Furious 6 at a cinema and then uploaded it to the internet has been jailed for almost three years.
Philip Danks, 25, used a camcorder to record Fast and Furious 6 at a cinema in Walsall, near Birmingham and then uploaded a copy to the internet the following day.
The pirate copy was downloaded 779,000 times, costing Universal Pictures, one of Hollywood's biggest film-makers, almost £2.3m.
Two days after his arrest on May 23, he posted on Facebook, "Seven billion people and I was the first. F*** you."
On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to three charges of distributing pirate copies of films and was jailed for 33 months. Full story...
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Philip Danks, 25, used a camcorder to record Fast and Furious 6 at a cinema in Walsall, near Birmingham and then uploaded a copy to the internet the following day.
The pirate copy was downloaded 779,000 times, costing Universal Pictures, one of Hollywood's biggest film-makers, almost £2.3m.
Two days after his arrest on May 23, he posted on Facebook, "Seven billion people and I was the first. F*** you."
On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to three charges of distributing pirate copies of films and was jailed for 33 months. Full story...
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