Pirated 'Simpsons' traced back to Oz

August 18, 2007 Sydney has the dubious distinction of being the first market in the world where "The Simpsons Movie" was pirated, with distributor 20th Century Fox tracking an illegal Internet copy of the film to a Down Under locale within 72 hours of its Australian release. [...] in an indication that the industry's enforcement initiatives are working, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft said Friday that a 21-year-old Sydney man was arrested the day before in relation to the unauthorized recording and uploading and charged with copyright theft. AFACT alleges that the man arrested used his cell phone to film the movie at a cinema in western Sydney before uploading it on the Internet.

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