MPAA helps land criminal conviction in P2P piracy case
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 29 June 2008
The Motion Picture Association of America has helped convict an administrator for EliteTorrents.org, a peer-to-peer site, of felony copyright infringement and conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.
Homeland Security agents from several divisions served search warrants on 10 people around the country suspected of being involved with the Elite Torrents site, and took over the group's main server.
Dove faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in September, the Justice Department said.
Homeland Security? Aren't that those guys who are supposed to thwart terrorist attacks and respond to natural disasters? Some filesharers aren't really terrorists or natural disasters (they are for the MPAA I'm guess). Still, a nice way to waste tax money for the interest of some media industry. At least they can say they have locked up some P2P admin when another 9/11 happens. Putting that aside, 10 years for some uploads are way out of proportion, especially when some Hilton girl, who drove drunk, gets out of jail after crying a little and had to spend the other 40 days at home. And she could have actually killed people.