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Government wants imprison some poor schmuck for pirating Deadpool on Facebook

Monday, September 17, 2018 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Government wants imprison some poor schmuck for pirating Deadpool on Facebook

In case you thought your day was going poorly, the US government has asked that a young man who uploaded a bootleg movie to Facebook be smacked with a prison sentence. The person in question, then-20 year-old Trevon Franklin, downloaded a copy of Deadpool — which was in theaters at the time — from a site called Putlocker. He then put it on Facebook, where it was viewed over six million times. Unsurprisingly, the post drew the attention of 20th Century Fox and the FBI. Franklin was arrested in 2017, and pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor. According to Deadline, he…

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