Fleeing Bruno Cam Pirate Breaks Leg Colliding With Police
Written by enigmax on July 17, 2009Two brothers have been charged by police after allegedly camming the new Bruno movie. The pair aged 21 and 23 were approached by detectives acting on a tipoff. The older brother managed to temporarily escape but the chase ended when his leg was broken after he “collided with a police vehicle”.
Two Martinsville brothers have been charged in connection with the camming of the newly released Bruno movie at a cinema in Manville, United States. The police claim the pair had been recording first run movies and selling the copies on the Internet.
The prosecutor and police announced that Paul Epifan, 23, and his younger brother Timothy Epifan, 21, had both been charged with theft by deception. Paul Epifan was also charged with pirating the movie.
According to the police on Friday July 10th at around 11:00am, detectives from the very serious-sounding Somerset County Prosecutor’s Major Crimes Squad and detectives from the Manville Police Department received information that the brothers were inside Reading Cinema Movie Theatre in Manville, camming the Bruno movie.
As the brothers left the cinema, detectives stopped them and announced that the par were under arrest. Paul Epifan complied without a struggle, but according to the prosecutor Timothy fled and was pursued by police.
During the chase it’s alleged that Timothy pulled a recording device from his waistband and attempted to delete its contents. Then according to the police at least, Timothy then sustained a broken leg when he attempted to “cross between two police vehicles”, causing him to collide with one of them. There is no mention of any police cars “colliding” with him.
On top of his other alleged crimes, Timothy Epifan was also charged with resisting arrest. The pair will appear in court at a later date.
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The movie sucked, not worth admission much less a bkn leg.
Fair enough…can’t really complain.
too bad.
Mhmm. Something seems a bit fishy about his broken leg…
Just my thoughts though.
Take care mates.. ur a true pirate.. better luck next time
That’s quite sad to hear.
Maybe they’ll learn next time that cams suck and no one was gonna DL it anyway. Serves you right for trying to sell something that release groups give away for free.
when’s the new torrentfreaktv episode coming out? i miss porcia
next what chasing by commandos for pirating the movie in America that sucks just like american porn stars worthless porn
Except for the broken leg the running part is funny next you will see the police trying to arrest boys and girls that have illegal content on their iPods LoL
The next blockbuster will be about a special force tasked with deterring the pirate terrorist and will be trying to catch Dakota Fanning before she can upload her iPod into the next hotspot LoL
So long cammers, break a leg …
Ooops
@7 oh yea because scene groups don’t buy sources. Ratio makes the world go round!
CSWAT = Copyright Special Weapons And Tactics :)
S, what constitutes “x collided with y” versus “y collided with x”? Does The “collider” need to be moving while the “collidee” is stationary? What if both “collider” and “collidee” are moving? Does the one at higher speed become the “collider”. What if it’s not a head-on collision? Do we calculate the “collider”’s speed in the direction of the “collidee”’s velocity? These, my friends, are the things we should be thinking about.
George Orwellian ‘thought control’ and ‘thought police’ come to mind. Why?
Because I suspect that the exchange of information online has, in a sense, become part of the human lexicon.
From Wikipedia:
“The medium is the message is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.”
If I’m onto something, I wonder if Hollywood, MPAA et al. realize what they’re up against.
I think they do, but they’re just trying to slow it down long enough to get out of their industry…
Any stats on who’s left and where they went? This might be revealing.
I think one went into politics, but what of the rest?
It would be helpful to say the STATE instead of just the city..
New Jersey im guessing?
selling cam copies sounds crap to me
good.
I hear that Leonardo Di Caprio bought an entire island off the coast of Belize. If all the rich buy up all the land with their questionably-acquired fortunes, do the rest pay rent and work for a living?
Ever seen the film ‘Eureka!’?
Ever looked up the word serf?
Fractional reserve banking?
Debt slavery?
Wage slavery?
“The truth is you are a slave, Neo…”
– The Matrix
What was the name of the cartoon that had a rat named Brainz?
Eh, they weren’t the friendly type of pirates anyway… selling crappy cams? That’s bad business. Plus there’s already a decent quality one out lol.
@17
Pinky and the Brain
Ah, childhood memories.
Dakota Fanning will star in the next blockbuster being chased by special forces before she can upload her iPod on the next hotspot LoL
Yeah! that is it. Don’t know why I remember those two guys LoL
Who says they were selling the copies? The cops? Yeah, that’s a trustworthy source. It’s not like the authorities would ever exaggerate or bear false witness.
More likely they were just amateur cammers doing it for fun and the cops decided to run one of them over. :P
That give a new meaning to the word “popo” like in “pow pow” LoL
Cam sucks but people making money of it sucks even more.
That’s a shame for the police.
I hope they keep running behind cammers for a long time…
Cam sucks but people making money of it *suck even more.
Sharky and George “the crime busters off the sea” Was way better than pinky and the brain but I have just illegally downloaded pinky and the brain for my kids
Next will be the people with iPods
An anonymous tip goes to the police that a student is trafficking illegal material on school grounds and is arrested with his iPod full of illegal material that is a great victory for the law LoL
assholes who sell cams deserve this.
FREE FOR LIFE
This is what copyright law come to, ordering the police to chase adolescents down the street that pose no real danger to nobody.
I will laugh because I don’t live in the U.S. but americans should be very concerned LoL
The copyright industry at least was serious when they told us that they would crack down on pirates :)
Tonight on cops: “I first wanted to become a police officer when I was young, I got poked fun at alot and …. oh we got a 1058, calling all cars, movie cam in progress, with these people you never now what to expect, presume armed and dangerous”
At least one pirate have a legs up on the copyright industry now.
Run over for even thinking bruno is cam worthy .. karma ?
Run forrest! run!
*crash* oops!
They deserved it. CAMS are bloody awful.
They are really cracking down the legs of piracy now.
Voldermort lives!!!!! Stop denying it!!!!
bruno *pukes* . Why is it that horrible movies like these are the trending topic of the YEAR and then there’s a much better movie but the industry spits on it and laughs? I think they should look inwards first. I really wouldn’t have even thought of downloading that pathetic attempt by the industry in the first place. The industry is failin misserably even at its production level! Please next time make something show up on box office sales that is worth watching!
Bruno definately wasn’t worth breaking a leg over, let me tell you! And BTW – one cock too many in the movie o-0
Jack Bauer enters the room carrying a bat and asks:
“where is it, where is the transmitting device that will upload all the music to the middle east and destroy millions of american lifes?”
After no response Jack Bauer hits the terrorist legs with the bat and you can hear it cracking.
What is Bruno anyway sounds a lot like a boy toy from south america LoL
People been making money selling bootlegs for years..But I wonder why they would risk camming when bittorrent is available….Really makes me think they belong to a scene group…I would say 95% of all people downloading movies eventually sell copies because it really only costs about .25 cents to burn a disc and selling them for 2 dollars is quite a markup…Sounds like good business.
Hmmm…never mind I know now what it is and that I would not download it, because I just didn’t like the type of humor from Sasha and I don’t think he can make funny gay stereotype.
The police broke his leg.
The suspect’s face ‘collided’ with my fist repeatedly your honour. Then his testicles made contact with my boot. He then threw himself down some stairs and sprinkled some crack on his own corpse.
@47 Jul 17, 2009 at 20:23 by Anonymous:
On the subject of price I saw in “Good Copy Bad Copy” an african telling that the way africans deal with piracy is simple, their movies are priced at the same price as the pirated ones and where they can’t distribute they just leave it alone so others can fill in the gap.
A broken leg? Is that all? I’d have broken both his arms too just for trying to make a shitty film shitter by caming it. Epifan, more like Epicfail.
That what they get for selling cams. Should be released free in my opinion.
http://www.disabledtech.info
Gayfish.
Now ‘e can have a peg leg. Arr! Ye be a true pirate now! xD
I’m trying to think off a joke that puts this and Judge Dread and so far nothing anybody can make a funny joke please.
This is what you get when you belief you can be like Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris wouldn’t go CAM Bruno I’m sure of it. Not Bruno!
Where’s Judge Dread when you need him.
why would anyone that for cam
This story has so many holes.
A leg human body travelling at it’s maximum velocity can not break a leg against a car. A human body at maximum velocity can exert enough decellerated force to slow itself fast enough to avoid itself injury. However, a vehicle travelling at a minimum velocity even when decellerating still has the inertial energy and force to break a leg. The laws of physics support that the vehicle was in motion impacting the leg causing it to break and not the other way around.
The other problem is it never did sound like this was a very good movie at all. Therefore camming it would be pointless and they might as well have cammed the “W” movie.
Lastly, cammed pirated videos are hardly worth watching but gives you enough of a glimpse to see and decide if it’s actually worth paying for. Obviously this movie doesn’t qualify as a must see movie of the year. In addition, movie downloaders consider cam videos to be the most undesireable form of payload.
This story sounds like an orchestrated or fake publicity stunt.
@14-Dont give them any idea’s dumb@ss :P
I don’t think the should have been arrest, but either way they should have not have ran away from the police
i agree with #8, is TorrentFreak TV done? really, cops running someone down for a cam? don’t they have some real crimes to solve? i know, lets send someone into the theatre with a cam, and while the cops are chasing him, we’ll rob their banks, lol.
This will teach dumb ass cammers. Who watches that shit anyways.
LMAO what a couple of fuktards…lmao
If they actually tried to sell it, I can’t see how you expect me to have any sympathy for them. It’s these people that give the pirates a bad name.
damn it was to easy yesterday to record HP6 if i had a secret cam, no security at all. I bougt the ticket but shouldnt have done it, cause i could walk trough without people watching if you have a ticket.
haha i love p2p and i hate copyright as in its present form, but seriously, such a pair of degerate twins, great America in a fucking nutshell hahaha :D
I’m sure they weren’t actually going to sell them….how can they even prove that or know that already? They can’t, they just assume it so they have something worse to charge you with. Retarded. Sounds like these cops need something else to do like harass teenagers…
Why not just yank the memory card and stomp on it? Much faster than trying to delete the contents, which can probably be recovered anyway.
I would rather have seen the cam from him running from the police.
Police camera action!!!!!!
Mind you the cops should have tasered him for camming that flick. I can just see it now….judge asks police “Did you taser him for camming that shit flick?”
“Err… no your honour”
“Well you should have, right 2 months suspension for you boy-oh”
Fish don’t have legs.
MAKE GOING TO THE CINEMA CHEAPER!!! TO TAKE ME, WIFE AND KID AND TRAVEL CAN COST UP TO £30 A TIME, IM HAPPY TO PAY £3 OR £5 FOR A COPY TO WATCH AT HOME
And degenerate twins? WTF? Can you read? 21 and 23, that is one freaking long labour.
I gotta give these guys some fuckin’ credit. I can respect a man who runs from the puppet police to delete his filmed footage.
There’s this guy here in Toronto, Canada I think– a u prof- who wore glasses with a webcam built in– this was years ago… Built-in realtime webcasting (so what if the camera is confiscated or destroyed– it’s already online!); Smart mobs and podcasts and whatever else:
Chasing info-exchange is so ridiculous it’s really like chasing ghosts.
The ether!
a bruno cam is already on scene release. Why cost your leg for something which is already out there?
And collision theory is awesome. Newton would be proud of you guys.
checked the date on news in nj.com. It’s before the scene release so I take my words back.
“selling the copies on the Internet.”
Trumped up excuse to go after them or were they actually selling the cams?
If they were in fact selling them then they are no loss to the p2p community.
If they weren’t then hopefully that will in some way help them beat the charges.
@diarRIAA
I went to high school with these dudes; I can assure you it is not a faked story. I can also assure people that they do not deserve your praise or admiration, but you’d have to know them to really be sure of that fact.
Who the f*ck pays for a CAM?
Good question :)
Dumb and desperate people maybe?
American law is stupid, is it worth to run over a human with a car just to stop “one” bad cam-vid of a movie to reach Internet?
if your gonna buy a cam, you might as well just pay at the theater cuz you’ll have a much better viewing
“ZOMG he r taping movie like a jackass! GET HIM!!!!!” Officer Friendly
The fat ass cops must have tiny penis if they have to run down a 20-something who was just in their clutches with a car.
who the FFFFFFFF watches cams???
And even worse, pays for em??
@10 and 11.. HAHAHA well put.
I was just in the mall this evening where I saw some security guards with puffed out chests yelling at some guys in their faces to leave the mall.
I rollerbladed right by them and had an inspiration that I might try to do:
Get a whole bunch of guys together who are fed up with the security guards (not hard to do) and have some of them start a commotion and wait until a few enough guards arrive. Then, have the rest of the group appear and grab the guards and throw them out of their own mall. (Have another accomplice at a distance “secretly” tape the whole thing to later upload to you tube (after Photoshopping out all the faces except the guards’ of course. :)
WE are the new entertainment “industry”. ;)
To the people who keep going on about the selling thing, it’s obvious that the police made that up to gain more support in the matter.
They do that all the time, you see it in the case of torrent sites for example, they lie to the public for public support.
You saw it with Oink.
Running over a kid isn’t exactly nice either.
@85 kenny_lex. So if your a cop and your talking to someone and he runs, do you just let him run away? There could be other reasons why the guy’s a runner.
as they say in showbiz
“break a leg”
I’m glad to see my taxes going to use for the MPAA by wasting court fees/jail fees for these two. We’re screwed in America
Good old New Jersey. Just want we want the cops doing with their time /sarcasm
UltraLeetJ: “bruno *pukes* . Why is it that horrible movies like these are the trending topic of the YEAR and then there’s a much better movie but the industry spits on it and laughs?”
Wow, your really slow aren’t you. Believe it or not people have different tastes to you – that’s right, they like the film even if you don’t. Your incredibly slow but I bet you don’t recognise it do you…
“I would say 95% of all people downloading movies eventually sell copies because it really only costs about .25 cents to burn a disc and selling them for 2 dollars is quite a markup”
Far out, such noobness combined with such stupidity. Really, don’t even bother getting out of bed, you made up figures and your logic is so crap
hmmm, i’d like to know why the cops where involved in the 1st place, dont they have FAR more important things to be doing to benefit the public who incidentally pay their wages?
if shopping malls can hire security personell, why not cinemas if they feel so strongly about a shitty cam, then they can carry the cost of ‘policing’ their private business rather than the tax payer for something so trivial – priorities people, cammer or mugger?
i know who i want the resources spent on catching !
Another example of totalitarian police-state where cops are above the law and you get chased like a serial-killer just for filming a shitty movie on a screen
the brothers are lucky not have been shot dead for their crime!
i wouldnt be surprised if the officer(s) in question intentionally hit the guy with his squad car
Wow. couldn’t he just have got the camera and given it to someone and been like Happy Christmas!
Cams = Shit
Jesus christ people! He was resisting arrest and destroying the evidence! They had to chase him as both are felonies, this has nothing to do with any kind of copyright secret police brutality.
If he didn’t act like an idiot he would have probably escaped with just a fine, now he is looking at a broken leg and a jail sentence.
It was his own fault that his leg got broken. It is a well known police tactic to block off a crims escape with squad cars. Stop trying to spin it like his leg was intentionally broken and wait to see if he files an official complaint.
Camming is quite a serious crime whether you like it or not, especially as the brothers were selling them for profit. Plus cams suck anyway.
@103 : Point is it shouldn’t be a serious crime to cam a movie, at least not so serious that police men will intentionally hit an alleged cam-er with the car unintentionally/intentionally causing injuries or death.
Only a state where the corporations’ wishes are laws would this be so prioritized that we think copyright enforcement is worth killing for.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it’s a merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
@104
Where in the article does it state that the police deliberately hit him?
His leg got broken because he decided to run from the police and tried to squeeze between two pursuing cars. The police have a hard enough job as it is without people accusing them of intentionally trying to kill suspects for a relatively minor crime as camming a film.
Read 103 again.
I hate to say this, but those two guys got what they deserved. (Minus the broken leg. That’s just sad.)
You really shouldn’t pirate off the only legitimate venue that movies have to sell in. (That is, theaters. They specifically say no recording devices. Seriously, have some respect for nondigital distribution.) Instead, you should pirate off DVD’s, which have much better quality, are harder to trace, and are a much less legitimate venue for movies to make huge profits from. ($20 for a movie that I’ll probably just watch once? No thank you, man.)
And you especially shouldn’t sell them for a profit. That accounts for the broken leg, and whatever fines and prison terms they get.
At least BitTorrent people give them away for free.
ouch right in the kisser, open wide people
I never see movies in the theaters and there is now way I would ever get off my ass to rent or stream or watch Bruno, other than the shitty cam version I watched last night. I have no problem with having done that.
Anyway, it sounds like they covered up their police brutality just fine. Too bad the guy didn’t have a video camera so he could record them breaking his leg. Oh… right…
Good thing the police are out there actively responding to copyright infringement! I hope they’re a swift next time someone is making photocopies on a copy machine of a game manual or text book! Forget the rapes and robberies. They sure didn’t give a fuck when my apartment was robbed and *I* felt like the criminal by the way they were treating me. I guess I should have called and reported someone in my home using a camcorder to record HBO off of my television and they’d have heeded my every whim.
Why cause readers to dig up what state you are talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manville,_New_Jersey
@103 Jul 18, 2009 at 15:26 by The only rational poster on Torrentfreak:
It is only a grave offense for you because for me it ranks right up there up with taking lollipops from kids LoL
As for the jackass running away, if that happened in japan the police officers involved would have been charged with negligence and for causing injury to a person.
You had already one in custody you didn’t need the other, the guy wasn’t accused of rape or murder or any other serious crime and even if the evidence was being destroyed or was destroyed that scare could just be enough to make those two to stop doing it in the future, if it didn’t they would be caught eventually and could have been so using traps the problem it is not the one offs of this world is the repeating offenders that are really a problem in any crime that is not brutal and savage.
So please don’t try and justify the heavy handed approach of the police trying to cover their own asses.
[b]There is no evidence that it was deliberate, stop spinning like it was[/b]
major crime my ass
The U.S. police is one the most brutal polices in the world.
Sorry, but running from the police? He deserves broken leg for his stupidity.
i wonder who was the m***** f***er who ratted, and why didnt he just throw the cam away instead of delete its contents … if you ask me they arent the cleverest pair in the world… :D ahaha
PROTIP: In America, there are hundreds of cities with the same name. It’s helpful to say the STATE too.
@113
No?
can’t say i really feel bad about that.
while i haven’t nary a problem with DVD’s or the like, I do have a large ethical problem with cam copies…
Let’s face it, people do have to make money SOMEhow, and public performance is the only way to do it.
109 Jul 18, 2009 at 20:05 by jidanni
Why cause readers to dig up what state you are talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manville,_New_Jersey
what a morn, its martinsville, not manville
Good! One less cammer mean one less shitty download I have to bypass!
good for them. if youre going to be an idiot and SELL cam copies, you deserve to be arrested. so does any moron who would pay for a horrible quality cam bootleg.
I would have sympathy for them if it had been a great blockbuster or something but Bruno :o
No one in their right mind wants to see this sh*t and by that I mean the movie. Just like Borat.
But hey, can we say “Breakdown, takedown, your busted”
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Good riddance. Cams suck.
Police do a full-on anti-terrist style operation against these kids?
Two police cars, one of which run him over so he breaks his legs.
I hope they didn’t forget to include “Homeland Security”. Camming crappy films is serious and may support terrorism and peadophilia!
GooD! What a relief to know that the worlds superpower knows where its priorities are, and which crimes to really take seriously!
“Selling copies on the internet”?
Sounds unlikely.
You think that’s anti-terrorist actions?
The guy would be dead if they thought he was a terrorist dip shit.
He can hardly complain, he was caught committing a crime and he chose to run when the police inevitably came after him, his own fault really.
Man, Bruno was most definitely not worth a broken leg, possible massive fines and jail time.
I exited the cinema just 3 minutes into the actual movie started (after having to watch 30 minutes of commercials …)
keep hustlin
I hate it when pedestrians collide with my car! I’ve seen police cars run down criminals on tv, but this doesn’t sound like a serious enough crime to run over the suspect… He shouldn’t have run in the first place.
I’d really like to know how they even knew he was trying to delete the “evidence” if they were chasing him. I know I don’t know what the delete button looks like from 5 ft away. I bet you he was trying to record police brutality and they ran him over.
Lol
He’s trying to be a true pirate :D
Will he go for a new wooden leg?
I’m sorry, but this sounds more or less like law enforcement in america have gotten the right to take down anyone who bugs the richest classes in america harder than anyone else, right?
also, sorry to say that it sounds very unlikely that he broke his leg that way…
this is stupid!! some of u believe really that they were selling cams on internet?!!! i am sure they were just uploading it as torrent
Don’t believe police lies!!!
“Jesus christ people! He was resisting arrest and destroying the evidence! They had to chase him as both are felonies, this has nothing to do with any kind of copyright secret police brutality.”
Are you a total idiot moron? You are actually saying that the police is right to run over people for a copyright violation? Chasing after them is one thing, but running over with a car and causing serious bodily harm is another and you are a moron.
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