A San Marcos man pleaded guilty this morning to a felony charge of using the Internet to distribute a pirated copy of “Slumdog Millionaire” in violation of federal copyright law.

Owen Moody, 25, pleaded guilty to uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial distribution, admitting that he uploaded a copy of “Slumdog Millionaire” late last year to a website called thepiratebay.org, so that others could download the movie over the Internet. Moody also posted a link to the upload at the Internet websites called demonoid.com and mininova.org.
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