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September 6, 2015 10:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zB5a1ikQMuc/us-governments-pirate-movie-bootlegger-gets-24-months-probation
US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation
Solandri writes: Ricardo Taylor, a former supervisor at the U.S. Department of Labor, ran a bootleg DVD operation for seven years, copying DVDs and selling them to other employees via the Department's internal email system. You know — exactly the sort of thing our draconian copyright fines were meant to prevent. He made more than $19,000 from these pirated movie sales in 2013 alone. His punishment? 24 months probation. Apparently, using the Internet to share Copyrighted materials at no personal profit is a more serious crime than selling copyrighted works for profit on physical media. More details on this local NBC site with auto-playing video.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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