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NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-not-pass-go dept.

angry tapir writes "A Virginia judge has sentenced Matthew David Howard Smith, a founder of the NinjaVideo.net website, to 14 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Smith was indicted along with four others late last year. The DOJ charged that they illegally provided copyright-protected movies and TV programs for download from the NinjaVideo.net website. The site operated from February 2008 until authorities shut it down in June 2010."

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  1. Re:meanwhile: by GPLHost-Thomas · · Score: 1, Troll

    Right. This is why the government started an investigation of the financial sector, arrested Geithner and Poulson, closed the FED, and bailed out people and not corporations, why everything is sooooo transparent especially with monetary policies, and that we "see in Washington, the kind of government that can be accounted for" (do you even remember who said that joke few years ago?). You must be right, nobody bought the government...