Torrent admin imprisonned for 5 months

[W1nTry]

Troubling if its a sign of things to come...

BitTorrent admin jailed for five months

First US torrent conviction


By INQUIRER newsdesk: Friday 27 October 2006, 11:37

ACCORDING TO TorrentFreak.com, a bit torrent site admin has been sent to prison for five months.
23 year old Grant Stanley was involved in private torrent tracker Elitetorrents. For his involvement with the website, he has received five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention and a $3,000 fine. Grant pleaded guilty earlier this year to "conspiracy to commit copyright infringement" and criminal copyright infringement.

US attorney John Brownlee said in response to the case: "We hope this case sends the message that cyberspace will not provide a shield of anonymity for those who choose to break our copyright laws."

Apparently this is the first torrent related conviction in the US and has happened under the FBI's Operation D-Elite, focusing specifically on Elitetorrents. µ

[Saxito Pau]

Something for RIAA and MPAA to lap up....

and torrents have been my -last- source of decent files out there.... sigh

in a few years we'll have a "Great firewall of China"-type scenario....

bad talk de president in an email or download that cool new MP3 to your PC and hours later the FBI bustin' in your window, guns in hand

[Cross]

or the CID......or......SACUTT or whoever lol mayb e COTT themselves might try a thing