A Charlotte, North Carolina man who stole a PC game from a disc replicator (his employer)—and subsequently uploaded it to an online warez group—has been sentenced to three months in a halfway house.

[URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100503-714650.html]Dow Jones reports[/URL] that Christopher Anzalone also received five year’s probation and was slapped with a $25,000 fine for his theft of Assassin’s Creed from [URL=http://www.oemdisc.com/]Optical Experts Manufacturing (OEM)[/URL]. The game was in the midst of being duplicated for commercial distribution at the time of the crime in February of 2008.

As noted [URL=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/85506-Ubisoft-Sues-Disc-Manufacturer-Over-Assassins-Creed-Leak]by The Escapist[/URL], Optical Experts Manufacturing’s apparent inability to protect its clients from this type of theft resulted in [URL=http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6195570.html]Ubisoft suing OEM[/URL] in mid-2008 for $10.0 million, alleging “an extraordinary breach of trust and gross negligence.”
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