Attorney who oversaw porn film fraud scheme sentenced to 5 years in prison, ordered to pay restitution of more than $1.5M.
John Steele in 2010.on multiple counts of fraud. Prosecutors accused Prenda Law of using “sham entities” to obtain copyrights to porn films — some of which they filmed themselves. The men uploaded those movies to numerous file-sharing websites, including The Pirate Bay, a popular website for sharing links to unauthorized copies of music and movies, where they hoped some people would download them.
Then, the firm would subpoena internet service providers to obtain the information of alleged users who downloaded those films and offer a $3,000from “individuals who were unaware of the defendants’ role in uploading the movie, and often were either too embarrassed or could not afford to defend themselves.”
While both Steele and Hansmeier admitted their crimes, prosecutors said in an earlier court filing that the former hadauthorities with a “truthful and complete rendition of his misconduct,” while the latter had not.
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