It's being reported that Paul Sherman, a freelance movie critic, has been selling movie screeners to software pirates, so that they could post them on newsgroups and BitTorrent sites.
He sold over 100 movies, from 1999 to June 2005, and he made a grand total of $4,714 out of it.
Wow - talk about the risk not meeting the reward. $4,714 divided by 100 movies is $47.14 a pop, divided by the 6 years that he did this, gives you $7.86 per movie per year.
But, he got caught in this lucrative endeavor, and now faces 3 years in prison plus at least $250,000 in fines.
There should be a Darwin award for people who do stuff like this, but don't end up actually killing themselves in the process. Maybe they'll call them Sherman Acts...
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