A Tennessy’s court sentenced a mmphis person, who worked in a 57-month prison for a DVD and Blue-ray manufacturing and distribution company, who was in jail to steal and sell digital copies of unpublished films.
37 -year -old Steven R. Hale was accused of selling ripped DVD and blue-ray discs of films before releasing in March. The prosecutors said at the time that Hale had stolen several discs of films which were being prepared for commercial distribution in the United States between February 2021 and March 2022.
In May 2025, Hell Accepted to violate criminal copyright And agreed to completely compensate the victims, in which about 1,160 DVDs and blue-rays, including returning to their employer, were seized by investigators.
Hell, a convict with allegations of previous armed robbery, also illegally convicted a gun found with a round in the chamber and 13 in 13 magazines.
“Copyright’s owner Steven Hale lost millions of dollars as a result of stealing DVD and Blue-ray blockbuster films and selling them before their official scheduled release dates,” Said FBI Special Agent Incharge Joseph E. Carico on Thursday.
As the Department of Justice had revealed in March, Hale sold ripped versions of stolen-rolled DVDs and Blue-rays through various e-commerce sites.
In the stolen film disk list “Godzila V. Kong,” “Shang-C and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “Dune,” “F9: The Fast Saga,” “Venom: Late Bee Carnez,” and “Black Wido.”
He was also accused of ripping pre-immaterial-man: No Way Home “Blue-Ray and after stopping the unauthorized copy, a digital copy taken out of online was shared after bypassing the encryption.
The Department of Justice said, “That digital copy was then illegally made available on the Internet more than a month before the official schedule of the Blue-ray.” ” Spider-Man: No Way Home ‘copies were downloaded tens of millions of times, in which millions of dollars copyright owners suffered an estimated loss. “
In early March, prosecutors in New York accused two persons employed by a third-party contractor for Stubahb online ticket marketplace, in which the ERAS tour of Taylor Swift and about 1,000 stolen tickets for various other incidents were availed from $ 635,000, such as US Open Tennis Championships, Adlescerts.
In Jamaica, both employees of Sutherland Global Services were detained by twenty -year -old Tyron Rose and 31 -year -old Shamara Semans in New York City and are now facing a possible maximum penalty of up to 15 years behind bars.
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