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Movie piracy sentence: Does the punishment fit the crime?
- March 16, 2010 4:27 PM |
- By POV
A Montreal man the FBI once called Canada's biggest movie pirate was sentenced to 2½ months behind bars on Tuesday for pirating and illegally distributing copyrighted material on the internet.
Geremi Adam, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing high-quality, pirated copies of Hollywood film productions.
Adam is the first Canadian sentenced to jail for breaking cinematic copyright under the country's revamped laws.
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