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No escape from the web police

By Alex Fiore | April 28, 2011

All Marcos Garcia wanted to do was watch Inception. Instead of renting or purchasing the film, the freshman undecided major decided to download the film illegally onto his computer using a torrent program called uTorrent. Shortly after the film was downloaded,...