Entertainment industry outsmarts blithering moron
People get busted for doing stupid stuff all the time. Hell, at any given time you can probably find a dozen shows about “World’s [insert superlative here] Criminals.” This would be one for those shows, but instead of a guy trying to knock over a liquor store with a banana, the video would be more like a neanderthal drooling on a keyboard.
Prosecutors claim Ochoa said in an Internet chat room that he wanted to put online a special copy of the Johnny Cash biopic, which was supplied in advance to Oscar voters. It is unclear how he allegedly obtained the film.
A chat room participant contacted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which set up a fake movie-swapping Web site where Ochoa uploaded the film on Dec. 21, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Hoffstadt said.
The film was taken from the mail before it reached its intended recipient, he said. A digital watermark identified it as an Academy screener film.
If you’ve ever hung around the darker corners of IRC, you know that a lot of stuff gets said without getting said. This guysis apparently unfamiliar with the idea of being low-key.
A word of advice to future pirates: If you’ve got the urge to distribute obviously watermarked stuff that you stole out of the mail, at least make sure that you trust the people you’re bragging to.
