The FBI has charged a Chicago man with uploading four episodes of the popular Fox series "24" onto LiveDigital.com, reports the Variety.

Jorge Romero uploaded the episodes a week before the show premiered on Fox and could face up to three years in federal prison as a result. Romero found the episodes on an unnamed website, then uploaded them to LiveDigital, an act for which he's charged with distributing unauthorized videos, not pirating them.

News Corp., which owns the rights to the videos, discovered them the day after they were uploaded on Jan. 8. News Corp. then sent a subpoena to LiveDigital asking that the culprit be identified.

Networks and studios are aggressively targeting video-sharing sites such as YouTube to remove pirated content. Earlier this year, Viacom sued YouTube for a whopping $1 billion after a similar offense took place.