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DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail
An anonymous reader writes "After spending nearly 3 years in a detention center fighting his extradition from Australia, a leader of notorious warez group 'DrinkorDie' was yesterday arraigned before a U.S. District Court to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine."
hahahah i remember this poor dude.... house raided by the fbi at 2 am.... ouch
To hate the yank fucking judicial system
I hope one day that some sorta 24 scenario happens in Yankland and "Y'all" die (cept the cool Yanks of which , on the internet at least, are few and far between)
Then the world could get on with being a normal community
"Latter-day Robin Hoods" and "were not involved in the software piracy scene to make money" Don't make me laugh. They participated in piracy because they would get access to software, music, movies, e-books and more in exchange for their participation. Sure they supposedly didn't make any money by selling anything, however they still got "paid" with access to topsites.
Australia, England, and just about every other country has an agreement to honor copyrights. It's a two-way street. Australia wants to protect the copyrights of its citizens. If Australia finds copyright violators in the US, they can ask to have these criminals arrested, charged, extradited, and prosecuted.
/. are teenage hypocrites without a clue. Go out on the street and try to earn a living without the help of mommy and daddy.
To all you communists out there that think copyrights are foolish... what would you do if your father or mother earned a living writing books, and everyone stole the material, gave it away, or re-sold on the street corner for $1.00 or $2.00. How would your parents put food on the table? How would they make a house payment, or the rent payment? Medicine? Clothing? Do you expect a welfare state to pop up and provide for your family? What would you say if your family lost their home because of piracy? You'd be angry. You'd want criminals to be prosecuted, ordered to pay restitution, and/or put in jail.
But when you're some rich teenage punk without a job, and you have mommy and daddy to live off of, it's easy to spout some leftist agenda. You don't have to pay taxes. You don't have to put food on the table for a family. You don't have to buy clothing, medicine, or pay for insurance.
You blame the rich. Yet 1% of the world is rich. The other 99% are middle class, or they are poor. The middle class are hurt by piracy FAR more than the wealthy. The wealthy will remain wealthy. The poor and the middle class are hurt by piracy more than anything. They don't have the ability to fight piracy. Government doesn't care about the middle class or the poor. Oh sure, the democrats like to pay lip service to the poor, but it's a token effort. Ask Hillary what she's done for the poor. Ask John Kerry, Harry Reid what they've done for the poor. They give out welfare exactly like they did 40 years ago. Nothing more, nothing less. Giving out money is insulting. It keeps them down, it doesn't help the poor. Democrats are more interested in class warfare than anything else. They don't have a solution, they just want to point fingers and stay in power.
So keep spouting your anti-copyright rhetoric. Keep believing that you're hurting no one when you steal. Make yourself feel better when you say, "Everyone is doing it." Everyone is NOT doing it. There are honest people who are NOT greedy and do NOT have any need to steal 20,000 MP3's, thousands of videos, and hundreds of console games. Respecting people for their work, rewarding them for their work is the right thing to do. Most of you chose to live in a free country. You have the opportunity to go out and create something and be rewarded for it. How would you like it if someone stole your work and laughed at you? And then when someone responded, you cried about the mafia? Or the big bad government? And you complain about short sentences for rapists and killers? You people keep electing liberal judges and politicians. Bill Clinton pardoned hundreds of criminals. Murderers, rapists, gang members. Yet you complain about soft stances on crime.
Most of you ass hats on
... be elligible for parole in 10 years for raping a 14-year old girl and killing her and her family.
I disagree. It's pretty clear that reducing the sentences for such crimes are hardly going to encourage people to obey the law, copyright infringement is rampant as it is, and this guy was hardly an innocent kid who accidentally shared a few MP3s.
I say good riddance to him, I hope he gets the very maximum penalty, and has a seriously horrific time behind bars.
Its no worse than scheming little thieves like him deserve.
Europe also doesn't always extradite criminals to the US, for instance in cases where capital punishment is a possibility, or in cases of a middle aged celebrity who visited the US, loaded a thirteen year old girl up on alcohol and quaaludes, and then raped her in the ass.
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