Fine and sentence for pirate publisher of Harry Potter book

A publisher who brought out an unauthorized Czech version of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' has been fined and sentenced by a Prague court. On Wednesday, Vlastimil Svoboda, who published over 10,000 pirate copies of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', was handed a two and a half year suspended sentence and fined 200,000 CZK (10,000 USD). Albatros, the Czech publisher owning the rights to the Harry Potter series, pressed charges against Mr. Svoboda back in 2004, when they found out he was distributing the book illegally. Mr. Svoboda was selling his copy of the book for around 100 CZK, while the recommended retail price for the official version of the novel was 490 CZK.