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BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison
Marc wrote in with a Torrentfreak story which opens: "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 his role 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.'"
Man sent to jail for breaking the law! What a shocker!
He could have been sentenced to X number of community service hours until the corporations he stole from was paid back fully. I suspect this would probably be a lifetime community service but it is fair.
If you allowed people to download 100 copies of Windows XP Home full edition, then you should do enough community service to the corporation stolen from to pay for $19,900 in lost profits. That would be around 3000 to 4000 hours. The amount would be reduced if you turn over the people who downloaded those 100 copies. And those 100 people would be ordered to do community service to pay for the $200 in loss profit. You literally pay for what you stole.
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after all I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent;
after all I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out;
after all I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller
Just sayin'.