Prison For Pirate

You know the advert. It used to be only beaten in the annoyance stakes by Simon Bates coyly waffling on about "sexual swearwords" and 18 certificates before your rental video finally got round to showing the film you'd handed over your hard-earned dosh to see. Empire Online challenges anyone to deny that the all too familiar sight of some blonde idiot wandering around a market trying to get his money back for a knock-off vid doesn't automatically make your forefinger hit the fast-forward button. Immediately. And it seems that we're not alone in allowing the determined efforts of FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) pass us by along with their warnings about the legal cost of a touch of video piracy. One Allen Arthur Watts of Norwich, for example, must be kicking himself rather hard for not taking heed of this said infuriating commercial. Just convicted for conspiracy to defraud the film industry on two separate occasions, Watts may now be facing a whopping 6-7 years in prison for selling approximately 516,000 counterfeit videos grossing