Downloading or watching movies on online sites is not only an illegal practice, but also implies a risk for those who do it, since there are pages that can infect computers with viruses and expose the user’s personal information to third parties, although, at worst, In most cases, doing so means being sued by one of the celebrities featured in the film, a crime with fairly severe penalties of up to six years in prison.
Like the case of a man who narrated the occasion in which he was sued by none other than Adam Sandler after he downloaded one of his movies on his cell phone, because he never believed that something so simple and that practically any mortal does to daily could bring you trouble.
This is Andrés Prince, a real estate agent living in Chicago, Illinois, United States, who through a six-minute recording shared on his TikTok, talked about the story time of the federal lawsuit that he received from the company Cobbler LLC, producer of actor Adam Sandler. The man assures that he faced the complaint when he was barely 20 years old and was still a student.
According to what the man narrated, this situation happened during his first year living in the United States, because when he arrived in the country he settled in the house of an uncle who allowed him to stay in what was completely established. Soon after, Andrés decided to hire an Internet service, since there was none at home, so in the afternoons, he and his brother spent watching movies on the Popcorn Time site.
This was how he spent a long time until, one day when he got home, his uncle told him that a package had arrived, something that seemed strange to him, since he had not ordered anything. Upon opening it, Andrés saw that it was a document with many pages, which upon reviewing it, he discovered that it was a federal lawsuit from Cobbler LLC for downloading the tape. The Cobbler (2014) by Adam Sandler, which was unpopular and didn’t make a lot of money.
At first, the man thought it was a bad joke or a lie, but after a week he received another document saying that he had to appear before a judge with a lawyer to face the lawsuit against him. . Andrés recounted that he was scared to death and that he spent several sleepless nights until he appeared in court.
Already in the office where he was summoned by his lawyer and the accusing party, they explained to him that it was a federal lawsuit for downloading movies illegally, since the actor’s company was focusing on suing anyone who downloaded illegally. that movie in particular, because the desired money was not earned on that tape, that was the way they found to generate it.
Given the situation, in his defense, Andrés realized that he could not have been the one who downloaded all those movies, since he had an iPhone and it is not possible to download movies on that cell phone, unless it was from an Android operating system. After his argument, the lawyer showed him a list with the names of around 50 movies that appeared in his download log, so he came to the conclusion that it had not been his cell phone, but his brother’s, since it was on that device where they watched the tapes.
In addition, Andrés, who defended his position that he had not been the one who downloaded those films, said that his lawyer and the people from the office told him that regardless of whether he was the culprit or not, for the simple fact that the Internet company’s contract was in his name, he had to answer to the charges against him, which amounted to thousands of dollars, or, failing that, he could end up with six to twelve years in jail.
Frightened by the unflattering outlook, they proposed to settle the whole matter at that time. The deal was that he had to pay three thousand dollars and they dropped all charges against him. Therefore, without thinking about it, Andrés accepted and called his two brothers so that they would cooperate with him for a thousand dollars each and be able to pay the fine. In the end, it all worked out, and he learned that at least 500 people across the United States had the same thing happen to them.