A Danish Pirate Bay user has been fined 150,000 Kroner ($28,000) for uploading a movie to file-sharing website Pirate Bay.

The user, who used the Pirate Bay pseudonym Icenfire, uploaded a DVD screener copy of the movie Black Balloon. He was raided by anti-piracy group Antipiratgruppen (APG) in February 2010 and admitted uploading a copy of the Anders Matthesen comedy.

As reported on TorrentFreak, Maria Fredenslund, a lawyer with APG, talked up the significance of the raid at the time, claiming that “massive violations of copyright” had been uncovered. In fact, it seems Icenfire – thought to be in his late 20s – wasn’t as big an uploader as initial reports suggested.

The District Court in Herning ordered Icenfire to pay 150,000 Kroner ($28,200) in compensation and a further 40,000 kroner ($7,500) in legal costs.

Maria Fredenslund, lawyer with RetttighedsAlliancens (previously known as APG), said:

“It is a very important decision because it establishes that it is a serious violation of the law to be the first to make illegal material freely available to other users.”

The lawyer also admitted that Icenfire wasn’t financially motivated by his actions and only uploaded the movie for fun because “he had nothing to do.”

A very expensive lesson learned by Icenfire for sure, and proof that the devil will find work for idle hands.