Seven fans admitted pirating the DVD a week before its release in movie theatres and passing it among themselves. They also admitted allowing a copy to be put on the the Internet by a eighth person. They can each get fined $100,000 and a years jail.
One defendant is said to have taken a copy from a post-production house passed it around and then another passed it to the person who previously admitted uploading it. US laws have made releasing a film before its opening a federal crime!
Revenge of the Sith then went on to earn only $848.5 million dollars while Hollywood studios complained they lost $1.95b to piracy.
