| After Bridi
Pleads Guilty To Blu Ray Pirating He Is
Sentenced to 22 Months, Removal to UK
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 7 – George Bridi was
charged with illegally
distributed movies and
television shows on the
Internet.
On November 18, 2021 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman held a
change of plea proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Unlike most criminal cases in
the SDNY, here the prosecutors
had put out a press release
announcing
"the guilty plea
of GEORGE BRIDI, a citizen of
the United Kingdom, for his
role in the Sparks Group, an
international piracy group
that BRIDI pled guilty today
before U.S. District Judge
Richard M.
Berman.
U.S.
Attorney Damian Williams said:
“As he admitted in court
today, George Bridi
participated in an
international video piracy
ring that illegally
distributed worldwide on the
Internet nearly every movie
released by major production
studios, as well as television
shows. Bridi
circumvented copyright
protections on DVDs and
Blu-Ray discs to illegally
share movies online, but he
and his crew could not evade
law enforcement scrutiny, and
Bridi now awaits sentencing
for his
crime.”
Sentencing was set for January
20, 2022 at noon. The
case of course was filed in
January 2020. And the
sentencing, when it happened,
was on February 7, 2022. Inner
City Press covered it.
Judge Berman said
he would impose a sentence of
22 months. Bridi's lawyer
asked that it be reduced to 20
months, because he might spend
two or more extra months being
deported to the UK. The AUSA
said that delay would be
unlikely, and Judge Berman
said he's already factored it
in. His focus, he said, was
general deterrence. Twenty two
months was the sentence.
It is US v.
Bridi, 20-cr-18 (Berman)
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