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'Love Guru' Costs Dumbass 6 Months of Freedom

Posted Jun 19th 2009 8:15AM by TMZ Staff

It may be the dumbest move of all time: A man risking his personal freedom, public humiliation and his entire career -- all because he wanted to illegally burn a copy of "The Love Guru."

As if sitting through the flick wasn't punishment enough, a 28-year-old named Jack Yates was just sentenced to 6 months in a federal prison for burning illegal DVDs of the awful flick for his friends before the movie came out in 2008.

Yates' copy eventually made it to the 'net, where it was illegally downloaded more than 85,000 times.

Dude pleaded guilty to copyright infringement -- he's also guilty of the worst taste in movies ever.

Tags: copyright infringement, CopyrightInfringement, federal prison, FederalPrison, mike myers, MikeMyers, the love guru, TheLoveGuru

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1. Bitch!

Posted at 9:53AM on Jun 19th 2009 by almost sick of TMZ

2. It's official. I'm the only person on Earth who actually liked this movie. :(

Posted at 10:07AM on Jun 19th 2009 by Jonathan Shroyer

3. this movie may not be the most intelligent movie ever made but definitely was FUNNY

Posted at 10:08AM on Jun 19th 2009 by smithie

4. I'd watch it again, just for the Timberlake...

Posted at 10:14AM on Jun 19th 2009 by tmomaslomez

5. DAD as my kids call me...I know TMZ so loves me BUT remember I gave my life and hair and the top of my head for pepsi and this is WHY I go to the Doctors and had all the reconstruction and even skin bleaching do to those wounds.I was baddly wounded and I`am still in pain BUT thanks to the doctors I have a life and even family now.Why does TMZ cover up the truth? NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY and NOT GUILTY and what does that mean to TMZ..nothing nothing at all.

Posted at 11:14AM on Jun 19th 2009 by MICHEL JACKSON

6. Little fish will never get to keep or use thier copyright,BUT the SHARKS the huge muti-corps the volate every free trade laws in the books SMASH little fish to bits just tp make a point and to keep the playing feild warped to thier aventi.

Posted at 11:20AM on Jun 19th 2009 by COPYRIGHT Laws

7. omg I loved this movie...hilarious!! I would watch it a 100x !!
TMZ your opinions suck!! lol

Posted at 12:11PM on Jun 19th 2009 by sweetness

8. He might want to think fast and come up with a better reason for doing time than making Love Guru bootlegs.

Posted at 12:14PM on Jun 19th 2009 by wasted days and wasted nights

9. I think Mike Myers should have to pay the dude back for the cost of the cd's and his lawyer bills!!

Posted at 12:16PM on Jun 19th 2009 by Nshado

10. 6 months for the love guru, could you imagine how much jail time he would've gotten for ripping off a GOOD movie?

Posted at 1:22PM on Jun 19th 2009 by Snowdonia

11. That sucks, just like the movie ....

Posted at 2:15PM on Jun 19th 2009 by Ranxerox

12. Goo grief.... who the hell cares if he burned it. There are worse criminals out there that need to be locked up. Not some guy who burned a freakin DVD!

Posted at 2:35PM on Jun 19th 2009 by LisaL

13. #12 read the article, he did more than just burn one CD!

Posted at 6:42PM on Jun 19th 2009 by Iamgroovy

14. #13, no he did not do anything more than burn the copy. A yahoo in the OC got ahold of it and posted it onto youtube for personal gain. That's the gut they should be arresting. So really wouldn't the FBI agents who wasted so much time on this been better served doing something else? Come on.

Posted at 6:39PM on Jun 19th 2009 by CW

15. There has to be a hell of a lot more to this story than that. Millions of copies of thousands of movies are pirated each year without incident. So whats the real story here???

Posted at 7:54PM on Jun 22nd 2009 by Your name:

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