British man served 22-month prison sentence over global piracy ring
Yahoo! News.“Infringement of US copyrights is a big problem in our economy,” US District Judge Richard Berman reportedly said. “It’s doubly troubling that it can be conducted…from outside the US.”Bridi had already spend more than 17 months in jail after being arrested in Cyprus for his work with the international online piracy group, the Sparks Group.Berman said Bridi had played an “important supervisory role” in the piracy scheme, and ordered him to pay $120,000 (£88,657) in restitution on top of his sentence.Sparks has reportedly been leaking films and TV shows before their release dates for nearly a decade, allegedly costing major studios tens of millions of dollars over the years.Bridi said in court that he believed he had gone down the “wrong path”, adding: “I am deeply remorseful.