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convicted pirate makes a movie as part of a plea

Rejected submission by SiKing http://siking.wordpress.com/ at 2015-11-26 18:31:52
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"I thought I was not doing anything wrong. I thought it cannot not hurt the big companies. I did not do it for money, I did it for fun. I felt good in the warez community, I stood for something. I was convinced that I was too small of a fish to get caught. Well, finally they got me. Investigators even came after me to my work."
"The amount of damage that I caused by sharing of pirated software was estimated at 6 million Czech crowns (US$240k). This would bankrupt me."
"But I got the opportunity to 'work' off my mistake."
"If I film my story and my video gets at least 200 thousand views, the overwhelming majority of my sentence will be reduced."
"In the video I'm really playing myself, and this is really my story. A professional firm helped me make the video, I could not do it myself. It started with sharing, and I would like my story to end with sharing."

BBC link: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34932628 [bbc.com]
Endgadget link: http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/26/czech-piracy-youtube-views-sentence/ [engadget.com]


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