A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Australia for copyright theft after he allegedly used his cell phone to record The Simpsons Movie at a cinema and uploaded it onto the internet.
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) said that the man from Sydney faces up to five years jail if found guilty.
The Australian Federal Police and the film's distributor 20th Century Fox combined to get the unauthorized recording removed from the internet within 72 hours of its posting. However, during that time the movie was uploaded to a US-based global streaming site where it was viewed or downloaded more than 3,000 times.
It was also tracked to other streaming sites and P2P systems where it had been illegally downloaded in excess of 110,000 times and even dubbed in French.