Celebrity Justice
'Love Guru' Costs Dumbass 6 Months of Freedom

The Love GuruIt 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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16. Jacks my nephew, he worked for a company that dubbed these movies for promotional reasons. so he did not illeagally dub this film, it was a copy made for Jay Leno. Jack brought the movie to my house for his family to watch, my other nephew took it let a friend watch it and that guy who's name is Misha uploaded it to you tube. Your story isn't even close to the truth, do some better research next time.

Posted at 10:28PM on Jun 19th 2009 by bill wolfe

17. I loved this movie xD

Posted at 7:14AM on Jun 20th 2009 by Aine

18. I thought the movie was hilarious. Sometimes you just need to laugh at silly things.

Posted at 10:18PM on Jun 20th 2009 by peace

19. I think it's quite stupid. Instead of making the most of the technology available to them, movie and music companies go chasing up every little buck they can find. There's a whole new generation of citizens who file share on a daily basis and don't see anything wrong with it. Time for a new business model, fattycakes.

Posted at 2:44AM on Jun 22nd 2009 by Manaia

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