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Man Who Stole 1,000 DVDs From Employer Strikes Plea Deal Over Movie Leaks


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An accused movie pirate who stole more than 1,000 Blu-ray discs and DVDs while working for a DVD manufacturing company struck a plea deal (PDF) this week to lower his sentence after the FBI claimed the man's piracy cost movie studios millions. S...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An accused movie pirate who stole more than 1,000 Blu-ray discs and DVDs while working for a DVD manufacturing company struck a plea deal(PDF) this week to lower his sentence after the FBI claimed the man's piracy cost movie studios millions. As alleged by the feds, his game was beating studios to releases to achieve the greatest possible financial gains from online leaks. Other movies Hale ripped included animated hits like Encanto and Sing 2, as well as anticipated sequels like The Matrix: Resurrections and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

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