P2P network admin gets a prison term

ZEUS_GB · Joined: Jan 14, 2003 Posts: 5058 Location: UK

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ABINGDON, Va. -- A network administrator for a peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing system has been sentenced to five months in prison for copyright infringement.

Grant T. Stanley, 23, was also given five months of home detention, three years of supervised probation and a $3,000 fine for his role in the Elite Torrents service, which used a sharing technology known as BitTorrent. Stanley, who had pleaded guilty to copyright-related charges, was sentenced Oct. 17.

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OK....so they got one guy.....what about the other 3,963 ???

That's pretty lame for a Justice Department with a budget in the millions.

We sure don't get much for our money from those guys.

Oh well.......

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goretsky

Hello,

Judging from what I read (a quick search for Mr. Stanley and his web site revealed several articles), it appears the guilty party ran a tracker site which specialized in copyrighted material.

While this means he only abetted the copyright infringement, as opposed to say, hosting the files themselves, he was probably of more interest to the MPAA, RIAA, BSA and other trade associations like these than simple home users.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky