Sydney, Australia – The home of a Sydney man was raided by Australian police on Friday in connection with a copy of "The Simpsons Movie" that was leaked onto the Internet, the Associated Press reported.

The 21-year-old man reportedly recorded the film on his cell phone in a Sydney movie theater, and posted it on the Internet hours before the film's U.S. release on July 27.

He will be formally charged in October on as-yet-unannounced charges, the Australian Federal Police told AP.

The investigation included cooperation between the Motion Picture Association, 20th Century Fox and a private group, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

"Within 72 hours of making and uploading this unauthorized recording, AFACT had tracked it to other streaming sites and P2P (peer-to-peer) systems, where it had been illegally downloaded in excess of 110,000 times, and in all probability, copied and sold as a pirate DVD all over the world," AFACT executive director Adrianne Pecotic told AP.

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