Cashier faces prison for copying films

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A 19-year-old movie theater cashier from St. Charles, Mo., faces up to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to bootlegging movies and posting them to the Web, prosecutors said.

Curtis Salisbury, who worked in a St. Louis multiplex theater, admitted that he recorded and uploaded two movies onto a Web site created by FBI agents in Northern California as part of "Operation Copycat," a sting to fight movie piracy.

Sentencing was scheduled for February. Salisbury also faces a $250,000 fine.

Six people in the Northern District of California have been charged in connection with the sting operation, and investigators have conducted 40 searches.