Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Plea deal with feds for SAG member

An connect in the Screen Stars Guild has showed up in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after he was billed with uploading an award-season screener of "Black Swan" for the Sailing Bay file-talking about site.In the filing with U.S. District Court in La, Wes DeSoto made the decision to plead guilty to infringing a copyrighted work being ready for commercial distribution. He made the decision to pay for restitution, and prosecutors decided to not seek a prison term, meaning probation is most likely. A sentencing date isn't set.The FBI completed searching of DeSoto's apartment in April, seeking computer hard disks together with many other materials, on suspicion he was the foundation from the month of the month of january uploads of screeners of "Black Swan," "The King's Speech," "The Fighter" together with other movies. The movies were distributed around SAG people on iTunes, as well as the FBI mentioned it used the foundation code concerning the screeners to follow along with these to DeSoto. Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com

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