Roger Friedman, the grumpy douchebaggy film reviewer for FoxNews.com that makes Harry Knowles look like Gene Siskel downloaded that hilariously unfinished copy of Wolverine and gave a mini-review in his column. "I am, in fact, amazed about how great Wolverine turned out. It exceeds expectations at every turn. I was completely riveted to my desk chair in front of my computer." Um, the only problem? That's technically (and not so technically) illegal piracy of a movie, which Friedman was ripping from 20th Century Fox…so basically, stealing from his own company.

The film studio, which enlisted the F.B.I. last week to hunt the pirate, put out a statement calling Mr. Friedman’s column “reprehensible,” among other things. Then the News Corporation weighed in with its own statement, saying it asked had Fox News to remove the column from its Web site. (It did.)

Over the weekend, the Web site Deadline Hollywood Daily reported that Mr. Friedman had been dismissed. Sure enough, on Sunday came a revised statement from the News Corporation. “When we advised Fox News of the facts,” the statement said, “they promptly terminated Mr. Friedman.”

An updated version of this story however, is that Friedman will get to plead his case to the powers that be at Fox: Be that Murdoch, Jim Gianopoulos, Kevin Reilly, or the F.B.I. Even though Friedman had this coming, we feel sorry for anyone who has to stand before that trial and jury.