FBI hunts down '24' pirate

June 02, 2007 A Chicago man could face up to three years in prison for illegally uploading pirated episodes of the Fox series "24" to an online video hub, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jorge Romero, 24, is accused of uploading four "24" episodes he discovered in January at an unspecified location online and posting them on LiveDigital.com eight days before their primetime premiere. The FBI's criminal complaint charges Romero "with uploading copyrighted material to a publicly accessible computer network knowing the work was intended for commercial distribution, a felony that carries a statutory maximum sentence of three years in federal prison."

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