Jorge Romero, a Chicago man that just happens to be 24 years old, has been charged with uploading copyrighted episodes of hit FOX show 24. Whether or not he knew it or did it, the episodes that he posted were in fact unaired as well as aimed at commercial distribution.

Since this offense was brought forth by the FBI and backed by FOX studios, Romero could do time for up to three years at a federal prison. He is in a terrible position, as he was “wise” enough to upload the first four episodes of the newest season of 24 a week before they aired on television, breaking all sorts of trade, copyright, and internet laws and regulations.

While it is hard to say anything about Romero’s innocence (Guilty!), I can say that the only person that could get him out of this mess would be Jack Bauer. Too bad that Jack is too busy saving the world.

[Via Yahoo]

The newly enhanced Nero, aptly named Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced debuted at this year’s NAB conference in Las Vegas and the newest addition adds a slew of HD extras, but they’re going to cost you … maybe.

“Nero users can now author their video content onto Blu-ray Discs (BD-R and BD-RE) featuring sophisticated menus, and can play the authored discs on their PCs, and via Blu-ray players.”

But Nero, what about HD-DVD?

“Because Nero is committed to supporting the full range of HD formats, the company has also released a new plug-in that enables HD DVD playback with the Nero ShowTime application.”

Ahh, I see and how much is this whole enchilada going to set consumers back?

Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced is currently available at retail for $99.99, and via download from www.nero.com for $79.99. Current Nero 7 owners can download the update free of charge. The additional HD-DVD plug-in costs $24.99.

Well, you drive a hard bargain but if you don’t mind, I’ll just sit this one out, at least until the dust settles on this whole format war.