World Leader in Movie Piracy Flees from the Mounties
Written by enigmax on February 12, 2008Last month we reported that Geremi Adam, producer of some of the highest quality pirate movie copies ever seen on the Internet, had been caught and had been ordered to appear in court in January. Adam, aka ‘maVen’ had other ideas - and has disappeared.
Between 2004 and 2006, Geremi Adam, delighted the movie piracy scene with some of the highest quality Telesync movies ever seen. From ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ through to ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ and plenty of other titles, the work of ‘maVen’ set a very high standard for quality pirated movies.
Following an FBI investigation into ‘maVen’, his file was handed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in April 2006. By September of the same year, Geremi Adam was arrested by police outside a Montreal theater after ‘camming’ the movies ‘How to Eat Fried Worms’ and ‘Invincible’. They seized his laptop and other equipment but later released him. A month later he was arrested again outside another theater.
Facing a $25,000 fine and six months in jail, Geremi Adam was ordered to appear in court on 30th January. Clearly unimpressed by the prospect of being locked up and/or bankrupted, he failed to appear in court and has gone on the run.
“We have a warrant and the police officers will try to find Mr. Adam,” said federal prosecutor Yacine Agnaou in a statement. “When he is found, he will be mandated to appear in court.”
Meanwhile, outside the court a demonstration was taking place by a group calling themselves ‘Hors-d-Oeuvre’ who say that ‘maVen’ is being unfairly treated and that all media should be available on the Internet for free. “Free Geremi!” they chanted in unison.
Fortunately for Adam, he committed the alleged offenses before new tough legislation was introduced to punish movie cammers caught in Canada. He will likely escape the severe punishment of 2 years in prison, a fate awaiting fellow cammer, Louis-Rene Hache. RCMP Staff Sgt. Noel St-Hilaire said: “Unfortunately at the time there was no legislation that forbid anyone from filming in a cinema. There’s not much we could do then other than issue a warning.”
Although not turning up at court is likely to inflame the situation, it’ll be interesting to see if the mounties are prepared to put any serious effort into ‘getting their man’ in this instance.
More photographs from outside the court house are available, thanks to burns1de
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Once_Upon_A_Time_In_CANADA.divx
a few special effects and BINGO .. yet one more low budget movie that grosses BIG $$$$s at the Theaters.
remember .. Once_Upon_A_Time_In_Mexico.divx
or just call it RUN_maVin_RUN.divx
STAGE6 it
Good Luck and have Fun maVin
Chow
1 final thought from me,
this movie, Life Of maVen,is a cam done in a theater in Quebec, think i`ll wait for an R5 or at least a good telesine , hope there will be a sequel to this :D
Good luck maVen and thanks for the great shows. Don’t resist arrest if they do catch you though, the RCMP are likely to taze you to death if you do that.
In Quebec, we barely send murderers to jail, and we try to reeducate them.
I would be surprised if a Quebec judge would even give a fine to somebody who has taped a movie. Not going to court is a bigger problem, but even then. The proverbial slap on the wrist is, probably, the worst that can happen. And if the Liberal party of Canada can grow some cojones, we’ll get rid of the conservatives who pass laws jailing dudes with cams, instead of dudes with guns.
It really wasn’t a great idea to run.
Failure to appear or to comply with summons
(4) Every one who is served with a summons and who fails, without lawful excuse, the proof of which lies on him, to appear at a time and place stated therein, if any, for the purposes of the Identification of Criminals Act or to attend court in accordance therewith, is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
movie piracy is there fault that’s what they get for taking forever release movies on dvds.ETC anyway to bad he had run.
Hooray a Cammer goes down. Cammers waste so much of other peoples bandwidth by seeding such shit content.
I am german - good luck to you Gemini. What is with Halifax?
In germany we have DVD or Blu-ray flatrate in video rental store’s. We dont need longer filesharing. You pay 15 or 20 Euro and could see anything what you want. Our solution in germany is video flatrate’s.
Are in USA or Canada no video flatrates like in european?
well it is somthing else that they have the nerve to hunt this man down. Why dont they go chase some dopedealer`s or sex offenders ,I mean they hurt ppl this dude gives ppl a reason to stay home com on
HEy come 2 australia maVen you wont get caught here u can crash in my basement dude
holy shit man i actually got some of his torrents!
run maVen RUN!
wtf 2 years in jail, for a non-violent offence!?
this is madness!
it isnt even for personal gain, what a fucked up world. im never supporting the sytem it can rot and die!
hahah he deserves it
Gay.
Hopefully they don’t spend too much time and money trying to find this guy. This whole copyright issue is redundant as hell
Globe and Mail = Fail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080213.PIRATE13/TPStory/National
welcome to Canada!
thats the trouble with non-returnable warrants … charged with some minor crime you just move an and start over in a differrent location under a new name …
cheers mare!
[quote comment="289171"]
cheers mare![/quote]
… should have been:
cheers mate!
[quote comment="288360"]It really wasn’t a great idea to run.
Failure to appear or to comply with summons
(4) Every one who is served with a summons and who fails, without lawful excuse, the proof of which lies on him, to appear at a time and place stated therein, if any, for the purposes of the Identification of Criminals Act or to attend court in accordance therewith, is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.[/quote]
blah blah blah … can you say NON RETURNABLE WARRANT
… problem is endemic in BC. according to the vancouver pd!
the problem is the cost of sending him home to face trial … that alone severely eats up police department budgets and thus the pd’s involved don’t want to fork out the $$$ as this would hamper there budgets :)
summed up … who pays to send him home? the vpd recently stated they had over 2300 of these types of people (wanted in another jurisdiction).
ps
look for another “maVen” on the scene … i’m sure he will return!
[quote comment="287659"]went to jail for camming movie, yeah..they will fear you in jail for that[/quote]
actually they (the other inmates) will make him a her !!!
can you say BITCH ?
[quote comment="288041"]What a pussy 6 months isn’t shit, definately not anything to run from.[/quote]
yeah! you’re right. 6 months of being someones bitch in the crowbar hotel is a piece of cake.
YOU SIR ARE A) A CROOKED COP or B) A FUCKED UP FED!
get a life! and chase some real criminals you donut eating fat fuck.
oops … can i say all that on the internet?
oh well, I just did! and I stand by it!
imagine what the fbi would do to him in the states. the canadian system is so lax in comparison.
Si Senor! He is here eating tacos with my homes!!
Maven, if you can make it down to Phoenix, you have a safe house to stay at. Copying information is not a crime. Fuck the so-called “intellectual property” mafia. As if they came up with all their ideas in a vacuum.
Walk to Alaska, lol. I hope he gets away.
Meanwhile a sexual predator gets 2 years in prison and gets out to prey again. Screwed up world we live in.
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