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MPAA Scores First P2P Jury Conviction

Posted by Soulskill on from the connection-reset-by-jury-of-peers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA must be celebrating. According to the BitTorrent news site Slyck.com, the Department of Justice is proclaiming their first P2P criminal copyright conviction, against an Elite Torrents administrator. The press release notes, 'The jury was presented with evidence that Dove was an administrator of a small group of Elite Torrents members known as "Uploaders," who were responsible for supplying pirated content to the group. At sentencing, which is scheduled for Sept. 9, 2008, Dove faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.'"

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  1. Not "really" P2P by Gewalt · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was a release group, and altho they were releasing onto p2p, this is NOT the same thing as all those other cases where the **AA is demanding 3000$ tributes to ignore wrongdoings.

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    1. Re:Not "really" P2P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      No he was not. As far as I can understand it he leaked material from the warez scene onto P2P.

      Most (except probably a few unrespected crap groups) do not upload their material to P2P networks and don't want their material getting there. It is a security risk and it is exposing the scene.

      These so called Uploaders on P2P torrent trackers are mostly people who have access to scene material in one way or another. Maybe just a crappy courier that isn't contributing or maybe someone who pays for leech or is hosting a server. Anyhow they are usually not respected individuals within the scene and upload things to P2P for either ideological reasons or just to get a bigger epenis.

      Sorry for my rant but someone had to say it.

    2. Re:Not "really" P2P by Nullav · · Score: 3, Informative

      Seems like quite a stretch, considering that rounding them up en masse didn't have such an effect. Also, I can't be the only one disturbed that so many resources went to that.

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  2. Those types of people legitimise the MPAA efforts by Jailbrekr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sadly, when you are pushing prerelease stuff, you cross a very firm line into illegal territory. There is no grey area. They *are* costing the studios money, and they *are* violating both the spirit and word of copyright law. The maximum possible sentence is definately overkill, but I can't really argue with the conviction itself.

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  3. 10 years? Please USA, get a grip by The+Fanta+Menace · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've seen cases of murderers getting less than this.

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  4. Re:It might be a good idea... by LostCluster · · Score: 3, Informative

    TechTV.com did a full write-up, only to give in to a request to delete it by the cops. CNET's coverage was gone the next day too. MSNBC mentioned the situation on their station as well, pulled in because they had two former TechTVer's on-air. (One was at the anchor desk, and a former host of CyberCrime was working at the Laci Peterson trial.)