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When the unfinished workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was leaked online a month before its official release date ‘No one will want to see it when it’s already been on the P2P nets,” sobbed 20th Century Fux, its owner.

But it ended up “howling its way to the top of the box office with an opening day gross of $35 million,” as EW.com described it.

Now, FBI special agents working for Hollywood at taxpayer expense have arrested Gilberto Sanchez, 47,  for allegedly uploading the workprint to public sharing site Megaupload.com a month before its release, says the New York Daily News, going on:

“The indictment unsealed after his arrest said Sanchez knew or should have known that the Hugh Jackman movie “was intended for commercial distribution.”

He’s now facing  three years in jail a $250,000 (£156,250) fine, says contactmusic.

Interestingly, none of the stories we found say how Sanchez got hold of the print in the first place.

But as p2pnet has pointed out Lo! these many times, Hollywood always somehow forgets to mention many, if not most, of the movies which show up on P2P filesharing networks arrive there thanks to Hollywood insiders.

This was first detailed by AT&T labs almost exactly six years ago in Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process.

The AT&T report said of a total of 285 movies researchers sampled on the P2P networks, 77% were leaked by industry ‘insiders’.

And the trend continues. Strongly.

(Cheers, Andrew aka Comeonecomcast )

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