Man who stole 1,000 DVDs from employer strikes plea deal over movie leaks

Man who stole 1,000 DVDs from employer strikes plea deal over movie leaks

Feds reduced maximum infringement amount from “tens of millions” to $40,000.

Man Who Stole 1,000 DVDs From Employer Strikes Plea Deal Over Movie Leaks

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An accused movie pirate who stole more than 1,000 Blu-ray discs and DVDs while working for a DVD manufacturing company struck a plea deal (PDF) this week to lower his sentence after the FBI claimed the man's piracy cost movie studios millions. Steven Hale no longer works for the DVD company. He was arrested in March, accused of "bypassing encryption that prevents unauthorized copying" and ri…