Man Who Pirated ‘The Revenant’ Ordered to Pay $1.1 Million to 20th Century Fox

Man Who Pirated ‘The Revenant’ Ordered to Pay $1.1 Million to 20th Century Fox

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A federal judge this week ordered a California man who had pleaded guilty to stealing copies of “The Revenant” and “The Peanuts Movie” from 20th Century Fox and sharing them illegally via a piracy website to pay the studio $1.12 million in restitution.

William Kyle Morarity, 31, of Lancaster, Calif., was sentenced for felony criminal copyright infringement after he admitted swiping screeners of the films when he was working on the studio’s lot last year. This week U.S. District Court Judge Stephen V. Wilson sentenced him to eight months’ home detention and 24 months’ probation, in addition to the fine. Morarity had been facing a maximum sentence of up to three years in federal prison.

Using the screen name “clutchit,” Morarity uploaded “The Revenant” to a torrent website called Pass the Popcorn six days before the movie’s debut in a limited theatrical release on Christmas Day 2015, according to authorities. More than 1 million users downloaded the film over a six-week period, causing Fox to lose more than $1 million.

“The defendant’s illegal conduct caused significant harm to the victim movie studio,” Eileen M. Decker, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement. “The fact that the defendant stole these films while working on the lot of a movie studio makes his crime more egregious.”

“The Revenant” ended up grossing $183.6 million at the U.S. box office, plus $349.3 million internationally, according to Box Office Mojo. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio both won Academy Awards for their work on the film.

According to officials, Morarity has agreed to assist the FBI in producing a public service announcement about the harms of copyright infringement and piracy. Morarity copied the Fox screeners onto a portable drive and uploaded the movies from his home computer on Dec. 17 and 19, 2015.

So what?

>More than 1 million users downloaded the film over a six-week period, causing Fox to lose more than $1 million.

wut

as if he can pay it.

So basically, don't be the dipshit who actually shares pirated material.

He may not be able to pay it all, but you can be sure his wages will be garnished till eternity and Fox will go after any assets he has to recover as much as they can from him.

He obviously can not pay. What now?

Life sentence?

At least let them commit a more satisfying crime; like fuck a loli, kill a nigger or steal a bank.

we need stronger penalties against pirates look at how bad movies like the new ghostbusters are doing because everyone is downloading the movies instead of buying them.

Using a torrent, you don't have a choice. You share it even as you download.

There are no debtors prisons in the U.S. and the government cant transfer properties like that.

He will just carry the 1.1m on his credit record for the rest of his life and never be able to get a loan or a credit card.

Lost 1 million
Grossed 183.6 million nation wide

I ask, did this man profit anything? Money? Material things? Pictures of tits? No? Then upgrade your security and take this as a lesson. If you're sitting at lunch and someone knocks your food to the ground by accident do you sock them in the nose? No, you make sure your food can't be knocked over so easily and you keep that clumsy fuck away from your food.

Boo fucking who. You rich fucks aren't richer. You make those estimates ASSUMING people would pay for the movie in the first place, I don't go to theaters unless with family for a birthday or holiday, that shit is overpriced, at most I'd buy the dvd if I saw it in the bargin bin,

Also out of all the movies Leonardo was in, that was NOT oscar worthy, they just felt bad for him.

Bankruptcy is the answer there. Pretty sure it could be discharged.

Let me clarify; Don't be the dipshit who can be traced as the original uploader of stolen material. Those are the people the media corps go after the hardest.

Restitution is one of the types of debt that CANNOT be wiped through bankruptcy.

>The Revenant” ended up grossing $183.6 million at the U.S. box office, plus $349.3 million internationally, according to Box Office Mojo. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio both won Academy Awards for their work on the film

How will these poor victims ever recover?

>Fox: "someone "stole" something from our private company, costing us about $0. Government pls punish this low class scum"
>government: "k lol"

Those laws were initially in place to prevent cross company theft, later interpreted to stop "omg piracy so evil! My munnies"

Faggot.

>I don't go to movies. I only buy bargain bin DVDs

No shit you fucking spaz, you live that way because it's so easy to download. the internet destroyed the "home video" market.
don't act like if there weren't ways to pirate you wouldn't be handing out sheckles like the rest of us.

You wouldn't download a car would you?

Needs to take a long vacation in Cape Verde

Why even pirate them? Why not just stream them?

WE GOT HIM!!! MOZELTOVE!!!

>>I don't go to movies. I only buy bargain bin DVDs
How would you even watch a dvd? they dont make computers with those drives anymore.

I wouldn't. The last movie I bought was fury, about a month ago. Before that it was Machete a year ago. I spend my time working or playing vidya, watching anime. Piracy keeps me up to date with media my friends talk about like breaking bad or GoT. If I didn't have piracy I'd use YouTube or Pandora for my music, spend my shekels on vidya and have even less for the movies I don't watch.

He needs to get out of the country fast. He should of ran for it long ago.

Would if I could

As the person that talked about dvds, I have consoles as well as my pc.

fuck off you socialist scum. no matter how rich you are, capitalism and america is about keeping every dollar you rightfully earn. so fuck off

Imagine his disappointment once he realized the movie wasn't even all that good.

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The jews win again, huh?

Well there's torrenting something and then there's swiping screener dvds from a studio..

I agree with that. I wouldn't want anyone to take my money. But he didn't take their money and is being charged the imaginary million dollars they "lost" faces criminal charges and has his freedom revoked for sharing a movie, if i buy a movie and watch it with a grouo of friends is that illegal because they didn't pay? At what amount of people does it become illegal? 50? 100? My main point is that they make up that number by assuming the people who downloaded the torrent would, if it had not been avaliable to torrent, have paid to see that movie. Even though I am an example of the reality behind the situation in that a bunch of those people wouldn't have paid money in the first place.

Instead of jumping to conclusions maybe talk like a human and drop the "I'm anonymous I need to be a dick 24/7 here or I'm weak" persona.

No, you stupid fuck. Don't steal movies from your employer and upload them from your home computer.

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See
It's like you can't even follow a conversation.

meanwhile over at Wells Fargo...

it's like you're a stupid asshole who doesn't know how to read news articles.

How often do people get v& for torrenting (not uploading the source, but just downloading things off piratebay or whatever)?

Every Thursday.

They don't call them debtors prison, but there are places that do essentially the same thing

>Let me clarify; Don't be the dipshit who can be traced as the original uploader of stolen material. Those are the people the media corps go after the hardest.

Tell me, how is the above different than what the news article said?

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he forced them to lose money. he stole money from them. if you run a shop and plan on having a grand opening for a product found no where else, and i break in a week before and give a million dollars worth of your special product for free to other scumbags, you'd be pretty pissed huh?

so fuck off and suck your own cock faggot

they came after him hard because he stole ip from the studio and that's treated differently than just uploading ip online.

They dont.
Unless police search your computer, which they'd need a warrent, which they could get for distribution if you sold dvds you torrent, which you shouldn't, because that's illegal.

>Wearing a Panerai with such a delicate old style suit

Absolute Peasantry.

Thanks. That was much more helpful than the first response I got.

EVERY FUCKING THURSDAY

^this

Nigger now the fuck do you steal a bank

may 1000 bedbugs crawl into your asshole.

Top fucking kek. The benefits of living in a third world shit hole with fantastic Internet and zero law enforcement is that I can pirate everything my heart desires. Reality is I wouldn't purchase any of it anyway, I only consume it because I can get it free. I'll happily support and Indie title movie/game/music if it's good, but I couldn't give a flying fuck about some multi billion dollar corporation loosing what is literally a fraction of a percentage of their earnings. Same reason I'll happily steal a snack or two from a Walmart or equivalent, but wouldn't do the same to a small family owned joint.

They clearly don't care about getting any money back from this guy, they see an opportunity to make an example.

>piggy bank

With his nigger hands.

He "forced" them to lose estimated money.
Money they had no reason to believe they would actually make. Money that was not real, with a product that is immaterial. Selling goods is not selling entertainment.
A better example is if a circus comes to town, and I already knew the act told my friends what happened. A mix of these friends were and were not going to go in the first place, so after telling them they decide not to go. Now the circus gets mad and makes me pay for all the tickets that I "stole" which is an estimated value that they can make up as long as it's "within reason". The only difference here is smaller scale and word of mouth rather than a visual demonstration. (Which, if I had recorded the act will be exactly the same as "piracy")

Does that seem fair to you?

You need to pirate because you need to constantly stay distracted from thinking about how shitty your life is. You'd kill yourself without the internet.

no, an alternative is if you stole the carnivals rides you fucking retarded fuck.. how do you not get this???

Yeah no, criminal debts/restitution stays with you even through bankruptcy.

it's hilarious you need ridiculous "examples" to argue a concept you're unable to just explain in basic terms. you belong in the fucking circus you retard.

A carnival ride you can touch. That's like stealing the actors to make them act the movie out for you.

So let's say i watch shit on 123.com can i be fucked for it?

Seal Team 9 is on their way right now.

Jokes on you i keep a microwave next to my pc at all times for my hardri- oh fuck.

I pirated this movie to. Still haven't watched it

The example used before mine was just as ridiculous, who carries millions of dollars worth of goods besides jewlers? That's grand larceny and is not a parallel to piracy.

you just went full retard. directors pay these actors dozens of MILLIONS of dollars as well as free food and housing for them and their families and friends.unlike the obese sithlord who torrented a film that costs people millions to make in order of capitalism, but this fat fucking french fry eating NEET (like yourself) thinks he's cute, but he's not.

please KILL yourself

It's meh. Good at some points.

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do you even know what you're point is?

Garnish my celery?!

That the man in question being charged a million dollars for an estimated profit loss over an entertainment medium is completely stupid. Charge him for theft of property and be done with it, don't try and put monetary value based on a download number. That is my point.

God that picture still gets me every time. While I certainly am a sad faggot, I do just great for myself financially. Considering I'm 27, started my own business with zero capital a few years ago, and worked to the point where I own my home, car, and all other belongings while managing to remain debut free or ever take out a loan, I'd say I'm doing just fine. My beliefs still remain as I stated I above. Stay made friend. I got where I am because I prioritized my expenses. I was never going to spend money on those movies/games/music because it would detract from my financial goals. They didn't lose any sales because of me, they was never any potential for them in the first place. But because I could get them for free I did. The logic is pretty standard. Say what want, isn't going to make regret suddenly manifest itself within in.

You've gone off a tangent user, reel it back and try and make your point again, the one here has no bearing.

he was charged for theft; this is what i'm saying, you haven't read the article.

jesus christ dude i didn't shit on you so you could tell me your life story. i'm not your diary!

You'll take it anyway and you'll like it faggot! Who else am I gona tell this boring shit to?

And they are making him PAY reperations for an estimated loss of profit due to the amount of download's his torrent got.
Pretty much a magic number they drummed up.

your diary. you 3rd world jackals should really come to terms with loneliness. get off me.

You seem extremely misguided on how incredibly easy it is to out perform the animals that live here are, while be a useless sack of shit yourself. My white skin makes me a God here, while you just blend right in. And no I will not get off you faggot, you'll take this dick and you'll like it!

jew math is the most magical of all the maths. he stole (admitted to stealing) intellectual property from his employer. the studio jews estimated the value of their stolen property by the number of downloads. he stole their property and gave it away. this makes perfect sense!

outperform animals? what the fuck am i reading? are you the faggot who made the circus analogy? what do you do in the circus? i'll admit, now i am interested.

Why would anyone pirate The fucking Revenant?
Shit's dull as fuck

Did you pay to find that out?

Admittedly I clean their shit out after the show. Don't judge you privileged faggot, it's good work and someone's got to do it.

you do have the attitude of a shit shoveler.

Thanks friend, I appreciate you.

what happens when you torrent Games?

Just a reminder that Kenneth Lay, a man who literally hobbled the American economy for at least four years and left tens of thousands of ruined lIves in his wake, was only sentenced to 45 years. He never served a day.

i just read both of your convos (anons) I think that was completely a waste of time but at the same time i was entertained so....keep up the good work retards.

>current year of our lord
>downloading movies

Holy shit, has anyone even discovered streaming sites?

shut the fuck up faggot, i'm not here to entertain you.

Streaming sites are fine but they are usually either low quality shit or more compressed than the average McDonald's patrons colon.

your doing a might bad job of not entertaining me

mighty***

>Average ticket for a movie is 5-7 dollars iirc
>1 million people downloaded
I mean they aren't wrong, they definitely lost more than 1,000,000 if that many people actually downloaded it, but they could have taken the 10 seconds required to do the math to come up with a more accurate and astonishing number

Is it true the defendant has to blow DiCaprio weekly for the next ten years? 'Cause that's pretty gross if it's true.

>physically pirating a movie.

It's his fault for not using his brain. If you're going to pirate a movie, do it digitally by downloading.

>not understanding the difference between 'lost' and 'didn't earn'

What piece of shit theatre do you go to?
>5-7

not often but it happens. if you want fuck up the relationship with your isp pirating is a good way to do it. When you get caught all the studio can do ia report your ip to your isp and you will probably get a call threatening terminate your contract. You will most likely get off scott free the first time. Basically your isp has to deal with all the paper work i don't think they like it very much. Just stream everything it not illegal.

But it's because of guys like him that we can even pirate screeners. He wasn't pirating for himself, he was pirating for all of us.

that's what happens when you retards choose to watch a movie two weeks early using torrents. If you think torrents are safe you are dead wrong.

How much do you pay?

>sharing them

There's a big difference between pirating and sharing, m8.

>steal a bank
So like, wrap chains around the bank and tie the damn thing to a semi?

Retarded analogy. This guy didn't actually take anything from the studio, he just copied and redistributed it. It'd be more accurate to say he stole the secret formula for their krabby patties, then gave away 1 million krabby patties in a different town. Most of the people that ate his krabby patties based on the stolen recipe probably weren't going to try the krabby patty from the original owner anyways, they just ate it because it was there and it was free
That's not to say he didn't do anything wrong, just get your analogy straight before you look like a retard.

>and sharing them illegally

Stopped reading right there.

Screeners have shit quality. Wait for the BluRay. The real heroes are the BluRay rippers. They provide high quality rips for us.

Implying watching a screener movie is anywhere close to watching a movie in a theater.
Most of those people who downloaded the movie wouldn't have went to the theater to watch the movie anyway or if they actually like the movie would opt to visit the movie theater to watch it in a larger format.
They are basically screwing people over for no reason.
It's the same as people who download or stream a music artists music before they purchase it.
In the end they don't lose much money because they gain it back in concerts merch etc..

go back to the circus you stupid nigger.

You arent very bright

We pay about that. The theater makes a fucking killing on popcorn, drinks, candy etc.
I'm talking like 7 dollars for a bag of popcorn. Like 12 for a bucket

You are even duller than the other guy

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ooga booga click clack: the circus nigger.

Too Autistic to Come Up With a Decent Comeback: The Person
I can tell you're trying though so I'll give you credit

>Literal billions of downloads happen as toy types this
>billions of megabytes transfered in that moment
>one nigga got cause just today
>Been pirating for the last 15 years

Yea, im shaking

Ill pirate it later

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The guy who did it is from my town. It shocked the whole community here

>Made the mistake of saying ill pay for my familys food at the theatre
>Literally 150 dollars for 5 peoples food
It was 30 fucking dollars for nachos, a hot dog and soda

>It shocked the whole community here

You make it sound like he marketed his dangus as a lollipop to small children.

why isnt he on some kind of online registry for this shit? people need to be able to expose shitheads like this for what they are so we can shame them publicly.

>Shame
Id buy him a beer and compliment his shirt for all the good things hes done

>Equating rapists with piracy
My sides

I'd go a step further and get him an ounce of weed and give him a ride to mexico. Nobody deserves to be fucked over like they're fucking this guy over.

Cool story bro

Hell, ill see your 2 bets and raise you a "let him sleep in my basement for free and get him a job that pays under the table"

Shit man that's hard to top. I ain't got a basement.
I've got one trump card that'll beat it though. I'll upload his consciousness to the internet where he can pirate all the movies his heart desires.

how much money do you think di caprio made from this shitty movie? Is it well deserved?

You are a good man, user. Better than I

Samefag

He broke the law you dumb fuck, Im in Anonymous and we report people everyday for violating US law and report them to Interpol. Your a dumb fuck if you think its edgy to break the law.

You smart.

>Man Who Pirated
poor troll. he took the fucking movies reels and uploaded them; he didn't just download the movie from piratebay.

bro stop being so edgy bro, you can't break the law
the law is not a physical object bro

>Is in anonymoose
>Calls other edgy

Trace my ip, send my address to your mother, and have her suck the farts out of my ass

samefag