nfo file by kug.ĪXXo is the Internet alias of an individual who released and standardized commercial film DVDs as free downloads on the Internet between 20. After being released on bond, he was nabbed about four months later at a Thousand Oaks theater allegedly taping a Revolution Studios preview of the Adam Sandler film “Anger Management.Visual of aXXo ASCII art in. His first arrest came in September 2003, when he allegedly was caught in the act by a theater employee at a Paramount Pictures screening of “The Core.” He was arrested by Burbank police and charged with misdemeanor burglary, according to the court file. of America, the entertainment industry’s lobbying arm, began circulating Gasca’s photo at screenings. He would enlist people to sit in front of and beside him so no one would stand and ruin his clear shot at screen, and he designed a rig to strap his camera to the armchair, minimizing movement, McGuire said.

Ken McGuire, the supervisory agent for the FBI’s cyber crimes unit in Los Angeles, called the 35-year-old Gasca “the poster boy” for the government’s crackdown on piracy, which has included the creation of an international task force.Īccording to McGuire, Gasca left nothing to chance in a quest for high-quality copies. And Congress is expected to pass new laws aimed at illegal videotaping. Through digital fingerprints, studios now can pinpoint theaters where camcorder artists operate. Studios also have pressured theater owners to give employees night vision goggles and to offer rewards to anyone who catches people with camcorders. Gasca’s alleged success exposed gaping holes in the security of the very studios that had complained bitterly that legislators and law enforcement officials were not acting aggressively enough to combat piracy.īecause of the alleged actions of Gasca and a handful of other professionals who are believed to copy movies with camcorders, studios now search audiences before screenings. Although he was just one purported player in a problem that studios say costs the industry $3.5 billion a year, few could match Gasca’s alleged prowess in obtaining high-quality copies for duplication and downloading. Gasca was the first person charged by the federal government for making a camcorder copy of a film.

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