""In mid-April, Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) member Wes DeSoto had his premises raided on suspicion of uploading several pre-release movies to the Internet.
As Google’s cache at the time revealed, DeSoto uploaded torrents to The Pirate Bay including The King’s Speech, Rabbit Hole, 127 Hours, The Fighter and Black Swan, all between January 23 and January 29. As a member of the Guild, DeSoto had access to DVD quality screeners which were delivered to him via the use of special codes on the iTunes store.
According to Wired, DeSoto, who had a bit-part in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, agreed Monday to plead guilty to one count of breaching the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 for uploading the movie Black Swan to BitTorrent. He faces a maximum of 3 years in prison although the state is seeking three years probation.
So how did DeSoto find himself in the arms of the FBI? According to the affidavit, that was made easy by an almost unbelievable series of amateurish mistakes.""
http://torrentfreak.com/how-the-fbi-caught-an-actor-uploading-movie-screeners-to-pirate-bay-110914/
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