Feds shut down websites selling pirated movies, TV shows
Jul 19, 2012, 7:44 AM | Updated: 7:47 am
An Everett man has pleaded guilty in federal court, admitting he sold pirated copies of movies, TV shows, videos and other materials, marketing his sales to the Korean community in the U.S.
Federal investigators claim Sang Jim Kim’s Lynnwood-based company, World Multimedia Group, Incorporated operated websites that sold a large amount of illegally copied material, some of it downloaded from Korean TV.
Kim pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two counts of copyright infringement.
Federal investigators say that Kim admitted to undercover investigators that movie companies sometimes complained and that Kim would remove certain titles from his website and then offer them for sale again, a few weeks later. Some of the films that Kim posted for sale were still showing in theaters.
Kim, 36, faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 when he’s sentenced October 12, 2012.
