Jorge Romero Faces Three Years in Prison for Uploading Fox’s “24″
by John Little on 2/06/2007I’m not a huge fan of existing copyright laws but there’s no reasonable motive for Jorge’s alleged actions:
Jorge Romero, 24, used a Web site to download the first four episodes of the sixth season of “24″ and then uploaded them to LiveDigital.com, according to a federal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Friday.
The episodes appeared online more than a week before their television debuts on Jan. 14 and 15.
Romero was charged with one felony count of uploading copyrighted material to a publicly accessible computer network knowing the work was intended for commercial distribution.
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