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Hollywood Interest Group Oversees Investigation, Arrest, Prosecution of British Citizen

By Ian Chant 2012-08-17T20:20:44-04:00.

This week in Profoundly Scary News: Anton Vickerman, the man behind TV-streaming link-a-palooza Surf The Channel has been sentenced to four years in jail. That's not the scary part, though. The scary part is that the investigation into Vickerman was shepherded along at every stage not by agents of the British government, but by private contractors in the employ of a film studio trade group, the Federation Against Copyright Theft.