STIFF SENTENCE FOR DVD PIRATE
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STIFF SENTENCE FOR DVD PIRATE
In one of the most stringent sentences ever meted out to a DVD pirate, a federal judge on Monday sentenced Johnny Ray Gasca to seven years in prison for camcording a movie inside an L.A. theater. Gasca was arrested in September 2002 after he was caught trying to film The Core at a private screening. Meanwhile, in London, Peter Spencer, convicted of selling more than $100,000 worth of pirated DVDs on eBay, has been ordered to pay the money back within 12 months or face a prison sentence of two years. He was already spent about six months in jail. Spencer was nabbed after the private group Federation Against Copyright Theft monitored his online activities, which included offering 950 bootleg DVDs for sale on eBay on one day in January 2004.
05/12/2006
