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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.'"
What does BitchTorrent mean?
In this enlightened country, file-sharing is legally equivalent to operating a photocopier in a library!
Of course, you might get frostbite operating the keyboard, so it's a bit of a toss-up.
... what his, umm, sharing ratio will be in prison.
Do you think he'll leave it open for peers after he's done?
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Well, I will sleep much better tonight knowing that this horrible criminal is finally behind bars.
"And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench.
Uh.. this raises a question: Would he go to a prison with rapists, murders, and other violent people or would he go somewhere where he'd sit and think about what he did instead of worrying for his life?
Dude, your terminoligy is wrong. Let me rephrase in a way more people will understand:
Uh.. this raises a question: Would he go to federal pound me in the ass prison, or white-collar resort prison? (did you know they have conjugal visits there?!)
think they had glossy 8x10s screen shots?
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Releasing that film at all should be considered a crime against humanity!
I mean, i doubt if someone is GOING to rape you, one of the other inmates is going to tap him on the shoulder and say "Excuse me, but we just really don't to do that here. Sorry. Take it to maximum security."
-Red
Guns don't kill people, "with glowing hearts" kills people.
There really is no other type.
And it's "pound me in the ass prision"
-nB
whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
I think you meant to say 'Pound-me-in-the-ass prison'
Great new book on Evolution: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Sure it does; your cellmate can conjugate you all night long. The showers are affectionately called "conjugamania".
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
That's for the street vendors and back-alley shops selling physical media. How much money do you think the Mafia or Al Quaeda gets when someone downloads a thousand songs for free? If they want to cut-off the flow of money to the criminals, they should promote profitless online file sharing.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Well, whatever that's an advertisement for, I gotta get one!
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
When the trolls posted a worn out quote, I remained silent,
after all I don't feed the trolls.
When the moderators modded my post -1 flamebait I did not post a reply to my own thread,
after all it would get modded down also.
When a guy got thrown in jail for running a website I did not speak out,
after all he knew it was illegal and he doesn't live in Sweden or Russia.
When I posted an unfunny In Soviet Russia joke, nobody gave me a +1 funny.
Afrosheen
When an Open prison releases an inmate, do they have to do so under the GPL?
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
Yeah some people can be SO anal about it.
C.
"Doctor, it's not the voices I hear in MY head, but the voices I hear in YOUR head that really frighten me."
Look, IP is a very legitmate thing. One ought to be able to control how his ideas are used unless he expressly gives up that right. Without this idea, corporations could crawl though places like MySpace and Friendster or everything on blogspot.com and look for images to use in their marketing.
/. folks would probably steal the designs of Intel rather than make their own.
/. crowd is so against IP law because they don't actually create anything worthwhile themselves and have no appreciation for it. it is equally disturbing that the /. crowd has to cheer on criminals like this guy or Kevin Mitnick even when most of the community probably work in a lucrative field and come from relatively proveleged backgrounds. It is sad really. Stop selectively applying your morals and go out and pay for something other than your WoW subscription and Bawls and be sensible about the way the real world works.
And don't for an instance believe that this can't/or won't happen. It will and it is. Imagine how little content will be on free sites because there is no copyright protection. It is no more proper for a marketing agency to use my photographs in their ad campaign without my permission than it is for me to do the same with their material.
There used to be a civilized attitude in society that you just didn't rip people off. Now we need to send people to jail in order to barely make a point that these things aren't OK.
It is amazing what little respect that the GEEK community has for the property of others. Heck, if it were possible to produce CPU's and motherboards at home, most
The current attitude of "if it can be copied, it is free" reminds me of being a college student and having almost anything that wasn't nailed down someplace wind up in my sticky fingers. Better yet, it reminds of Homer's assertion that anything with a toothpick in it is free.
I imagine that the