A man who secretly filmed Fast & Furious 6 in Walsall cinema in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.
Philip Danks, 25, from the West Midlands, reportedly cost Universal Pictures around £2.3 million in lost revenue after he uploaded it to the web.
He had visited a showing of the film on its UK release day on May 17, 2013 and his pirated copy was downloaded over 7,00,000 times.
Danks reportedly also sold copies of his recorded version for £1.50 via his Facebook page, making £1,000 in the process. He was arrested on 23 May.
According to Sky News, he was rumbled after police noticed that his username, Thecod3r, was the same as that on his dating profile on webisite Plenty of Fish.
Yesterday Danks, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to three charges of distributing pirate copies of films and was given 33 months in jail.