As we've been talking about reviews so much in class, I thought I would share this little story... We all know that pirating films is wrong (not to mention illegal), but that doesn't exactly deter people. My question is, if you do illegally download a movie that hasn't even been released yet, why would you publish a REVIEW of it???
Yahoo! news posted an article about Fox News columnist, Roger Friedman who was fired after he published his review of a full-length work print of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" that had somehow been illegally leaked to the public. Friedman and Fox News decided to "mutually part ways" after he wrote that downloading the leaked version of the film was much easier than actually going out and watching it. In Shelly-language, that translates to "we both know you're going to get fired, so let's not make a big scene."
According to the article, 20th Century Fox plans to prosecute the person responsible for the leak, and have even brought in the FBI and Motion Picture Association of America to investigate the source of the leak.
Heads-up to all you modern-day pirates out there; if you insist on illegally downloading films that haven't been released yet, you might want to keep your reviews to yourself.
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