MUMBAI: A New Yorkite Gilberto Sanchez has been sentenced to a year in Los Angeles federal prison for illegally uploading and distributing a copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine before the movie‘s premiere.

Forty-nine-year-old Sanchez was sentenced on Monday by the court. The judge also imposed a year of supervised release and numerous computer restrictions.
 
It is said that Sanchez pleaded guilty last March to one count of uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial distribution.

Prosecutors say that he admitted uploading a work print copy of the 2009 film about one month before it was released in theatres after which he publicised the upload on two websites.