“24” Pirate Pleads Guilty

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The guy that uploaded four unreleased episodes of the TV show “24” has plead guilty. No telling what his sentence will be but Fox is claiming damages of $4 million dollars.

Prosecutors say Romero obtained the first four episodes of the 2007 season of "24" over the Internet by using the file sharing program BitTorrent, then uploaded them onto the Web site LiveDigital.com for wider distribution.
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So why don't they go after the source of the leak? It seams to me that it would internal to the company.
 
MorfiusX said:
So why don't they go after the source of the leak? It seams to me that it would internal to the company.
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My understanding was the leaked episodes came from a press packet that included a DVD with the first 4 episodes.
 
Silentbob343 said:
My understanding was the leaked episodes came from a press packet that included a DVD with the first 4 episodes.
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Then arrest the press person who leaked it.


I have no idea how they come to the conclusion that this was $4 million in losses, something tells me that they just subtract the advertising potential revenue for the loss in viewers for those episodes and multiplied it to get their final dollar figure.
 
I'm probably not in the norm, but I don't have a problem with studios going after this type of pirating. Like many people, I can't stand 25 minutes of commercials in a 1 hour show, so I don't watch much regular TV. If there's a series that I like, I buy it on DVD when it comes out. I own all the currently released seasons of 24 and will probably keep buying them when new seasons come out. I'm bettng a good amount of the profits in new shows is from the DVD releases.

It's the RIAA type of enforcement that gets me all fired up. A teenager, with access to a home computer, shouldn't be crucified (along with his unwitting parents) for downloading some stupid song that they'd have never purchased if they had the money in the first place. It's just stupid.
 
His punishment will be being locking in a room with Jack Bauer, with Bauer told that the pirate knows the location of "the bomb".
 
I suspect he'll get hit hard. After all, he messed with a media company. If he wanted a lighter sentence, he should have killed someone.

I can hear the prison chatter...

"You're in for what? And you got how much?? Dayum, I'll be out before you!"- Mass Murder
 
TechLarry said:
I suspect he'll get hit hard. After all, he messed with a media company. If he wanted a lighter sentence, he should have killed someone.

I can hear the prison chatter...

"You're in for what? And you got how much?? Dayum, I'll be out before you!"- Mass Murder
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Ain't that the truth.


Sadly, this "press" person who really was the source of the problem will probably walk free.
 
For the press person to "walk free" wouldn't they have to actually be charged with something in the first place?
 
This makes no sense whatsoever. This guy torrented the files... who was the original seed of the torrent? THAT is the person that needed to be arrested. This guy just needed to have his bell rung a bit for being stupid. The files were already on the torrent network, what this guy did was dumb as hell but the cat was long since out of the bag.

Who seeded the press packet? That's the big Q.

Q number two:Why does a press packet with 4 episodes exist in the first place? Whoever came up with that idea must have known what would happen and if he/she didn't then they should be fired yesterday.
 
Gambit said:
For the press person to "walk free" wouldn't they have to actually be charged with something in the first place?
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Thanks for being so nit picky...

Walk Free
Main Entry: beat the rap
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: escape without penalty
Synonyms: acquit, clear of charges, escape punishment, find not guilty, get away with, get off, get off scot-free, go free, go scot free, receive not-guilty verdict, walk



Advil said:
This makes no sense whatsoever. This guy torrented the files... who was the original seed of the torrent? THAT is the person that needed to be arrested. This guy just needed to have his bell rung a bit for being stupid. The files were already on the torrent network, what this guy did was dumb as hell but the cat was long since out of the bag.

Who seeded the press packet? That's the big Q.

Q number two:Why does a press packet with 4 episodes exist in the first place? Whoever came up with that idea must have known what would happen and if he/she didn't then they should be fired yesterday.
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That is what I would like to know.
 
Wait... this guy uploaded a torrent and is getting this kind of punishment? Are you fucking kidding me? Thats like arresting some guy and charging him 4 million dollars for telling someone about Kazaa. The guy uploaded what essentially equates to a link. Unless they busted him actually downloading the files and searched his computer afterwards, I don't see how its legal for them to go off a log that says he posted a torrent to a website.

Can someone clarify:
Prosecutors say Romero obtained the first four episodes of the 2007 season of "24" over the Internet by using the file sharing program BitTorrent, then uploaded them onto the Web site LiveDigital.com for wider distribution.
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Are they saying he uploaded actual .mpgs to a website or posted a torrent file?

If it's just a torrent file then I ask you, Where along the line of 3rd person association does it become illegal? Telling you a search term in google? Sending you a link to google with the search done? Sending you directions on how to use a P2P program? Sending you a link to a website that hosts torrent files? Sending you a torrent file that you have to actually open and run before anything can even happen? Sending you a link to a website hosting infringing files (e.g. .mpgs) over AIM? ACTUALLY SENDING YOU THE INFRINGING FILE (.mpg) AND BREAKING THE LAW?

At what point along the fucking chain does freedom of information end and illegal doomsdaying begin??? :mad:
 
Silentbob343 said:
heh keep that down don't want idiots flooding in to that area as well. Let them have their p2p.
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yeah, agreed. What we (experienced computer users) need to do is make it so complicated to download anything for the average person that they don't even bother with it, while at the same time it is dead simple for us to do so from the largest collection of digital media on the planet.
 
Rough sentence for distributing it, rather than actually being the one who leaked the source.

Wonder how much traffic he got from those episodes to garner a full investigation by the studios
 
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