FOX has egg on their face over Wolverine bootleg

Ya know, I'm gonna come right out and say it, I think FOX is about as sneaky and underhanded as our government is, maybe worse. So, when I heard them say the bootlegged copy of Wolverine was an incomplete version with a missing ending sequence, I was more than a little skeptical, in fact, I believe I called Shenanigans. I figured they were very upset, and rightfully so, about the leak, and wanted to deter people from seeing it, or more importantly, from not going to theaters to see it. FOX adamantly denied the claim, and said again the pirated version was 10 minutes short of the theatrical release.
Well, today, Wolverine has hit the big screen and we come to find out FOX was wrong, the bootleg is the exact same length, leaving some explaining to do from FOX as to the error. Chris Petrikin, FOX spokesman told the LA Times "There was no 'fibbing' involved -- that would imply that we were so on top of things that we anticipated having one of our biggest films of the year stolen and had time to concoct a plan to purposefully 'spin' wrong information." He also claimed Tom Rothman, co-chairman of FOX was simply given wrong information as to the exact length of the film, and it was either incorrect or misinterpreted. He was quick to get back to the fact they had no idea it would be pirated and are still looking into the cause of the leak.
So, basically, this leaves FOX looking like a bunch of liars, just trying to cover up an unintentional leak, and doing so with a very bad lie. There is no alternate ending, no special ending segment, just some desperate corporate guy trying to not lose a crap load of money, and thinking lieing is the best way to do it. Maybe he should go into politics, I'm sure he'll be in good company there.