Fox discovers an enemy within: employee found to be part of piracy group, stored films on server.(Piracy)(20th Century Fox Home Entertainment employee online piracy case)

Video Business, March, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul

Anti-piracy officials at 20th Century Fox Entertainment followed a trail of bread crumbs back to their own house last month when a Fox employee was discovered to be operating an online piracy ring from studio computers. According to a sworn affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by U.S.

Secret Service agent Paul Thomas, Fox information technology employee Lisa Yamamoto was part of a Warez group that illegally distributed movies and computer software through the Internet. Yamamoto allegedly helped maintain a cache of illegal files used by the Warez group that was stored on a Fox computer server. Some of the files were films that had not yet been released to theaters, according to the affidavit. The affidavit was filed Feb. 9 but...

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