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Sydney man fined for pirating 'The Simpsons Movie' |
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Written by Felix Da Silva (fdasilva@bitnip.com)
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
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 A Sydney man who recorded The Simpsons Movie on his mobile phone and uploaded the first known pirated copy of the movie has
been fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to two charges.
Previously, we mentioned that Jose Duarte was raided by police in August after an international
operation involving the movie's owner Fox tracked the copied blockbuster movie
to his Sydney home.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Duarte pleaded guilty in a Sydney Magistrates Court to a charge of
distributing copyright material and was fined by Magistrate Pat O'Shane Aus $1,000.
His lawyer, Ken Stewart, told the magistrate Duarte had twice tried to upload
the film on to the Internet on July 26 and thought he had failed. Stweart goes on to say that,
It would appear that this young man had the sophistication of a dead fish. I have sat and spent time with this young man ... and I am quite satisfied that
he had no idea what he was doing. Now that's a lawyer you want to represent you. At least he got him off with a farily light penalty.
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