FBI catch 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' pirate!

The FBI has charged a man with copyright infringement after he allegedly uploaded 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' earlier this year.

Gilberto Sanchez, 47, was arrested in the Bronx, N.Y. early Wednesday morning by FBI agents without incident, according to law enforcement sources. A spokeswoman from the FBI's Los Angeles field office (which led the investigation) has now confirmed the arrest.

By the time the movie was released, the pirated copy is thought to have been watched over 4 million times.

According to a copy of a grand jury indictment that was unsealed last week, Sanchez uploaded the film to file sharing network Megaupload.com under one of his online aliases, which include "theSkilled1" and "SkillyGilly." The indictment does not say how Sanchez obtained a copy of the film.

If convicted, Sanchez may face fines and a prison sentence.

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JoshW
12/16/2009
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46 Comments

	bring on the borigins comment by lee777 superdog - 12/16/2009, 7:36 AM
	Don't really blame it all on him Wolverine wasn't the greatest movie anyway. I happened to catch a bit of the pirated copy, and decided to stop to go see it in the theaters. The problem was I kinda wish i had just stayed home to finish watching it online. He actually didn't even upload the whole thing. From what many have stated there was a lot of cgi not added, and scenes missing. StrangerX - 12/16/2009, 7:39 AM
	Have fun getting raped in prison scumbag, you deserve it. I hope the person who does it to you is a HUGE Wolverine fan. ASSASSIN666 - 12/16/2009, 7:43 AM
	That dirty Sanchez! Actually, even though he might be a douche, he saved me from watching that swill in the theater. Thank you dirty Sanchez! Betty - 12/16/2009, 7:46 AM
	Yes it was a very rough copy...which tells u it came from a crew members hands..so unless this guy actually worked on the film himself...he shouldnt be the #1 guy 2 go after... i enjoyed the movie alot..but the more i watch it..the more i think how much it could've been better..i think it ruined a chance at a gambit solo film...especially since i hav heard no news on it..anybuddy else??? ~X XmutantX - 12/16/2009, 7:48 AM
	Good work FBI! Don't worry about catching terrorists or other threats to national security. Catching the wolverine pirate should be a top priority. Real talk: This is some BS FREE SANCHEZ!!! jusme6 - 12/16/2009, 8:30 AM
	He saved me $12, so for me, he did a service. I wonder how much of tax payer's money was spent on this investigation only to end up catching the guy who didn't take the copy from the studio itself, rather, just some dude who uploaded it. WeaponX - 12/16/2009, 8:45 AM
	lol @ Betty: Aren't you the lucky one? I actually PAID to see the swill. SixSixteen - 12/16/2009, 9:18 AM
	1st of all I am the one that came up with the Borigins talk and all the Derivitives thereof! Secondly , LEE777 just tried to come up with other ways of saying it too. But i gave birth to the slanderous talk and i am so hung over right over now. Lov e ya LEE, but ya know its true. And nobody actually hates that turd of a movie more than me! And Sanchez is the Man!!! shibazz - 12/16/2009, 10:29 AM
	All the people who watched it should pay half the ticket price to help him with his fines! cincyboy - 12/16/2009, 10:49 AM
	Congratulations FBI Instead of actually tracking down threats to national security, taking drugs off the streets, working on kidnapping cases, or catching murders you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to launch an investigation to catch a guy that cost a studio hundreds of thousands dollars. This same studio that takes in hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars annually. So now, national security threats walk the streets, drug dealers walk the streets, kidnappers walk the streets, and murders walk the streets.......but sleep well fellow americans, because THEY CAUGHT GILBERTO SANCHEZ! Fckin @sstards, this is like the Senate* spending months listening to the testimony of BASEBALL PLAYERS... JOB WELL DONE......idiots. Talontd - 12/16/2009, 10:53 AM
	Does this guy really need to be punished? I mean it's not like being the first person to watch one of the most lousy CBMs in an unfinished draft, without all the last layers of CGI applied, is bad enough, now he also have to pay for it and go to jail. On the other hand I paid and I found watching the movie like being imprisoned against my will, so maybe this is just justice being served...LOL LuckyKid90 - 12/16/2009, 10:56 AM
	FREE SANCHEZ! Wrong Sanchez? Betty - 12/16/2009, 11:23 AM
	I hated the movie but I thought in the end this whole thing helped promote the movie and helped them make more money off the film. Dmon - 12/16/2009, 11:25 AM
	@Talontd What is the point of having laws if we dont inforce them? What about the thousand of FBI agents that ARE out there catching national threats? Why sit around and bash the Federal agents that are taking drugs off the street? If these laws are not inforced a lot of Studios will go under. He broke the law and got caught. It may be a silly law to you but it doesnt remove the fact that he did it fully know what he was doing. demonvol - 12/16/2009, 11:31 AM
	JoshW - 12/16/2009, 11:34 AM
	I can hear a pin drop....where's lee?? Set2Fallfirst - 12/16/2009, 11:36 AM
	HAHAHAHAHAHHA @josh JasonBlue - 12/16/2009, 11:42 AM
	Where the fk is Teabag?????? ASSASSIN666** - 12/16/2009, 11:49 AM
	ok and this guy.......wait i lost my train of thought i was to busy staring at the pic Betty put up lol SraFisher - 12/16/2009, 11:53 AM
	this guy should get an award, not jail time. he saved millions of dollars that people would've spent on actually seeing the awful piece of garbage. sagekilz - 12/16/2009, 11:55 AM
	A message to all CBMers from THEPHOENIX (THEHAWK's wife): "Hawk was in a pretty bad motorcycle wreck this weekend. He is stable, but still unconscious. Someone has also gotten into HAWK's e-mail account and changed the password. They are now using it to contact everyone he knows and ask for money. He is not stuck in Europe or hiding out in Pakistan, he is in a hospital bed. It is a scam! So to everyone that was contacted, DO NOT send any money transfers!!!" Shaman - 12/16/2009, 12:09 PM
	ASSASSINS666: I've tried emailing him but it doesnt seem to work - I'm really worried about where he's gotten to! I wish I knew his real name because then I'd probably be able to find him as I remember him saying that he lives in Southampton and as I live in the UK as well I'm sure that theres a way I could have at least tracked down some sort of contact info! JoshW - 12/16/2009, 12:21 PM
	guys as i have explained before teabag was scheduled to have major back suregery in early december. he said hed be out for several weeks maybe even a month. thats probably why his email is deactive as well. hes fine, other than his back. im sure he'll be back as soon as possible. superdog - 12/16/2009, 12:34 PM
	Yea, nice one on capturing that criminal, how dare he unleash that pile of crap movie on us earlier than it should have, we had no time to prepare for the crap lol dancingmonkey08 - 12/16/2009, 12:35 PM
	damn!!! I wish he wasn't any one of aXXo,FXG,MAX,Skullputra,reloaded,razor,globe,Klaxxon guys.... bullsize - 12/16/2009, 1:02 PM
	Sure hope so, dog! Shaman - 12/16/2009, 1:17 PM
	lol hahaha they caught that sob.good. 1chris2 - 12/16/2009, 1:29 PM
	No sagekilz this guy shouldnt get an award, they most probably took him in because he knew it was crap and shared it anyway. Oh well sucks to be him breakUbatman - 12/16/2009, 1:30 PM
	@demonvol PRIORITIZATION!!! My problem isn't with the Agents that busted him per se, but with the delagation of duty. There are too many other things going on in this country for a team of FBI agents to be assigned to "catching the guy that uploaded a movie". If my rant seemed directed specifically at them (which i admit it does) then I apologize. My problem is with the Hollywood heavyweights having the ability to cause such a stir that such action was taken. I bet there isn't one FBI agent that signed up specifically to catch "those who upload movies." Their talents are being wasted, and so are my taxpayer dollars. As for the studio's going under because of Pirated Movies....that's bullsh!t. The music industry is proof of that. People will pay for the movie theater experience and DVD's regardless. The only difference is that execs, actors, and producers make a couple million less a year.....god forbid. The music industry has shown that people will still go out and pay for a CD that they feel is "worth it". Most of the people I know that downloaded ORIGINS went to see it at the theater as well, why?, because they wanted to see WOLVERINE on the big screen. Those that didn't stated one reason, "it sucked." Talontd - 12/16/2009, 1:39 PM
	sure,but piracy cannot be justified anyways.,except when it comes to movies,songs n games.Yeah,pirating medicines,cosmetics,food[adulteration] is surely a bad thing..:) bullsize - 12/16/2009, 1:43 PM
	superdog: Thanks for the info, I didnt know that! Hopefully tea will be back better than ever in the New Year! :) JoshW - 12/16/2009, 1:51 PM
	@bullsize I never said Gilberto Sanchez is a hero, he's not, he's a criminal. He's just really far down the criminal totem pole! Talontd - 12/16/2009, 2:10 PM
	Everybody is a Saint. SHHH - 12/16/2009, 2:34 PM
	SUPERDOG @ Where lol????! ; D Anyway, this guy was doing a public service, showing how SH1T it was b4 it came out so ppl didnt waste their money!!! Damn, wish i watched it lol, would've save me $10!!!! Lmfao!!!! ; P SET @ Lol!! : D LEEE777 - 12/16/2009, 2:54 PM
	I was just wondering about this, earlier today. Like an hour ago, actually. I'm glad that they caught that dirtbag. MPAA PREVAILS! JJMeylar - 12/16/2009, 3:55 PM
	Betty Hahahahhahh! Right you are! The dirty one saved me time and money. After a full scale panning, I opted to skip it. So I never had to sufffer thru DEPLORIGINS (as shibazz once called it hahahah) They caught that sanchez ridin dirty. BillyBlack - 12/16/2009, 4:13 PM
	MPAA just put a stop to piracy now! They caught someone who uploaded a sh1t copy of crappy movie. SHHH - 12/16/2009, 4:22 PM
	lol all you idiots saying "thanks for catching him and not the terrorists need to kindly stfu. There are different divisions that do different things. This is their job. CaptainAmerica - 12/16/2009, 6:22 PM
	wow they caught him mah late flames809 - 12/16/2009, 7:11 PM
	i thank the guy,i live for that kind of shit!THEY DIDNT LOSE ANY MONEY!god i hope it happens with im2....in like march!its funny..OSAMMAS STILL AT LARGE!!!THOW!! ProfOJ - 12/17/2009, 10:11 AM
	@CaptainAmerica Maybe you should kindly *Shut The Fck Up!!! This is a comment section for varying opinions. Just because they don't coincide with yours doesn't mean they should be silenced. My opinion is that those "divisions" need to be downsized and reappropriated to more imoportant matters... You don't agree???....That's cool. Your entitled to yours just as i'm entitled to mine... Talontd** - 12/17/2009, 11:03 AM
	"Maybe you should kindly Shut The Fck Up!!! This is a comment section for varying opinions. Just because they don't coincide with yours doesn't mean they should be silenced." Do you not see the hypocrisy in that sentence? You're basically telling him not to try and silence other while trying to silence him yourself. His opinion wasn't exactly the same as yours so you told him to shut up. Such a hypocrite. ToxinSuomi* - 12/17/2009, 1:06 PM
	@ToxinSuomi Sarcasm is obviously lost on you my friend. I was merely repeating the sentence that pissed me off... Talontd - 12/17/2009, 8:47 PM
	@joshw24-Man that's funny but not cool. I work at a movie theatre and we probably lost some money because of the word of mouth or viewing of the pirated movie. Now, I'm not denying that parts of the finalized movie were bad, but the pirated film discouraged a lot of my own personal friends, not to mention the public from seeing the movie moviemaker - 12/18/2009, 4:52 PM
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