Police track illegal movie distributor after he posted using the same username on dating website
A judge in Wolverhampton ordered a British man to serve 33 months in jail after he illegally recorded Fast and Furious 6. (Picture: supplied)
A British man who recorded Fast and Furious 6 from the back of a cinema has been jailed for 33 months.
Philip Danks, 25, uploaded the movie which was downloaded 700,000 times, BBC News reports.
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) claimed this was a major loss for the film's distributor Universal Pictures.
The judge who sentenced Danks said his behaviour was "bold, arrogant and cocksure."
As well as putting the movie on the internet, Danks offered to sell copies of it on his Facebook profile.
Police said that he had continued to illegally distribute movies after his arrest in May last year.
Officers were able to trace him after he used the username TheCod3r to leave a comment on a well-known pirated movie website.
Danks had used the same username on the Plenty of Fish dating website.
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