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https://www.srrdb.com/browse/1080/-SPARKS/order:date-desc/1

They seem to have been quite a busy bunch

$500k for first offence and $1m for each next offence. At "tens", we're talking about $20-90m?

So, that means 21-91 DVDs.

In other news, if you wilfully share a copyrighted picture of an American citizen, that's a $500,000 fine and USA will extradite and jail you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_...

> U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “As alleged, George Bridi was a member of an international video piracy ring that circumvented copyright protections on nearly every movie released by major production studios, as well as television shows, and distributed them worldwide on the Internet. Thanks to the assistance of our law enforcement partners, the piracy ring has been busted and Bridi is now in U.S. custody.”

Sounds like more than 3.

And unusually, the press release/statement is not an exaggeration. SPARKS ripped so many pre-release movies that at some point they obviously scared themselves, and suddenly announced that they were going to stop for the studios' sake.