Carmine Caridi, the Academy member whose screener copies were later found on the internet, has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros, the Los Angeles Times reports. Caridi says he gave his screeners to an acquaintance named Russell Sprague in Chicago, who put the movies on the internet without his knowledge. According to the Times, Sprague is scheduled to be sentenced next month. Because of watermarks placed on screeners the movie studios sent out to Academy members, the FBI was able to track the pirated films back to Caridi.
