Watermarking Could Lead to 'X-Men' Uploader
Found on Wired on Thursday, 02 April 2009
It's no surprise the Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the pre-release leak of the upcoming flick, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
And if the theft was done in the United States, the defendant faces up to five years in prison under a closely guarded copyright law making it a criminal offense to upload pre-release material. That's because uploading pre-release material -- movies or music -- is considered the most egregious form of piracy warranting FBI involvement.
5 years for something as banal as putting a movie online? That's ridiculous. Imagine sitting in your cell amongst terrorists, murderers and drug dealers for something as uninteresting as sharing a movie. It's a sad world if dancing to the tunes of the entertainment industry is all we do.