SAG Member Cops Plea On Screener Leak

Actor Wes DeSoto has agreed toplead guilty to copyright infringement for leaking an awards screener of Black Swan and other films to file-sharerBitTorrent. DeSoto’s L.A. apartment was raided by FBI agents in April after a MPAA piracy officer tipped the feds that several high-qualitycopies of feature films had shown up on the site. The bootlegs were review screeners provided through the iTunes store to members of the Screen Actors Guild. The authorities pinpointed DeSoto as the culprit through digital watermarks in the movies, according to an FBI affadavit. Federal sentencing guidelinescall for a sentence between 10 to 16 months, but the government is seeking three years of probation and restitution. DeSoto is expected to appear in federal court for sentencing next month.

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