Crooks and Liars:
I'm amazed that someone being paid by News Corp. or any movie studio, who writes entertainment reviews wouldn't know that they frown on the Internet pirating of music and movies, but evidently Robert Friedman was just that person. He actually was jumping for joy that he was watching it on his computer while the movie industry was freaking out over "Wolverine" hitting the net before it's even finished.
Someone stole an "incomplete and early version" of the next installment in the blockbuster "X-Men" movie series and posted it on the Internet this week, according to the studio that owns the billion-dollar film franchise. Twentieth Century Fox said the FBI was investigating who leaked "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which is set for release in U.S. theaters May 1.
The digital file quickly spread across the Internet and was available for free, but illegal, downloading from hundreds of easily found Web sites. "The source of the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; the courts have handed down significant criminal sentences for such acts in the past," the studio's statement said.
Now it's being reported that he's been fired over it.
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