Intellectual Property: conviction for uploading pre-release version of film to internet
A character in The Love Guru is compared to Tiger Woods, and then in a fall from grace, said to go "from role model to dating models." But it was not the prescient comment that brings the film into the news this week: it's that someone got their hands on a pre-release media copy and uploaded it to the 'net.
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