News: BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison

[friedclyde]

This is some damn sae news i came across:
The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.
This ruling is the first BitTorrent related conviction in the US. Stanley pleaded guilty earlier this year to “conspiracy to commit copyright infringement” and “criminal copyright infringement”. He is one of the three defendants in the Elitetorrents operation better known as “Operation D-Elite”.

Operation D-Elite (they love word tricks) was orchestrated by the FBI with a little help from the MPAA in May 2005, and resulted in the shutdown of one of the largest private BitTorrent trackers at that time.

FBI Take home Message that replaced the Homepage of Elitetorrents after the shutdown

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Help Scott to stay out of Prison at Torrentfreak

 

[Amaresh]

OMG..wow.

To be fair, it might have been ok to just shut the site down as they did with Suprnova, but I feel they might have crossed the line by arresting him.

 

[Params7]

Well, things like these have got to happen to keep the P2P activity under control. All of us are pirates here, some are just unlucky

 

[KingKrool]

Its crazy how running a not-for-profit piracy ring can make you a criminal. I could understand if he were selling drugs or something. I find it weird how in America if you do something like this, or commit financial fraud you go to jail for 20 years, kill someone and you are out in 4 for "good behaviour".

 

[q8hr]

Its crazy how running a not-for-profit piracy ring can make you a criminal. I could understand if he were selling drugs or something. I find it weird how in America if you do something like this, or commit financial fraud you go to jail for 20 years, kill someone and you are out in 4 for "good behaviour".

ya man ur rite