World’s Unluckiest BitTorrent Pirate Fined But Avoids Jail
Found on TorrentFreak on Monday, 13 February 2012
If the now 25-year-old had indeed removed his torrents as he had claimed then things might have turned out differently, but he didn’t and the court found him guilty of the willful copyright infringement of 60 movies between February 2010 and December 2010.
The court, however, did not consider the offenses to be serious enough to warrant a prison sentence so instead imposed a fine of 6000 kronor – approximately $900.
Prosecutor Frederick Ingblad expressed his deep displeasure at the decision saying that the offenses were tantamount to “going into a store every week for a year and shoplifting” and should not have been considered as a single act.
With a single comment, Ingblad makes it clear that he has absolutely not the slightest idea about what filesharing is. As said million times before, it's not comparable to shoplifting because nothing is stolen from the shop. With such an obvious lack of the technical basics he shouldn't be allowed to work on such cases; but then calling it theft makes it sound really bad and dramatic, even if it's nothing but a lie.