Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, The Love Guru

June 19, 2009 by Black Berry Action Plan
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This is embarassing. Jack Yates has been sentenced to six months in jail for pirating the horrible Mike Meyers movie The Love Guru. It might have been worth it for Star Trek, but come on, The Love Guru?

Yates was working at the Burbank distribution company hired to cut promo reels for talk shows when he made a copy of the DVD and uploaded it to the internet. Of course, he blamed his grandmother.

A true american hero! Keep fighting that good fight! [WSJ via Gawker]

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