A young man who filmed The Simpsons Movie on his mobile phone camera has been fined $1000.

Jose Duarte, 23, had "the sophistication of a dead fish", when it came to uploading the footage on to the internet, his lawyer, Ken Stewart, told the Downing Centre Local Court.

He tried to upload the footage onto a website after returning from the cinema in July, but did not appear to succeed. Finally the footage was uploaded at 2.30am, but Duarte did not get to see it, Mr Stewart told the court.