Pirater Charged for Stealing and Distributing 'The Revenant' Illegally Ordered to Pay $1.12 Million
A federal court judge has ruled that a California man who has plead guilty to stealing copies of The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie from 20th Century Fox and uploading them illegally must pay $1.12 million to the studio.
The 31 year old was sentence for felony criminal copyright infringement after admitting to swiping screeners of the films when he worked on the studio's lot last year. He received eight months' home detention and 24 months' probation on top of the fine.
The pirated copies of The Revenant was uploaded six days prior to release, and more than a million users accessed the film over a six-week period.
“The defendant’s illegal conduct caused significant harm to the victim movie studio,” Eileen M. Decker, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement. “The fact that the defendant stole these films while working on the lot of a movie studio makes his crime more egregious.”
Source: Variety
