Peer-To-Peer Website Administrator Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
 

Do you think this will help stop torrent sites

From AVN.com.

Defendant has been ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay a fine of $20,000.
By: Justin Bourne

Posted: 09/22/2008

WASHTINGTON - Former Clintwood, Va. resident Daniel Dove, 26, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge James P. Jones for the role he played as a high-level, peer-to-peer Internet piracy group administrator, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich announced Monday.
Additionally, Dove was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and fined $20,000.

Dove was found guilty of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement by a jury back in June of this year for maintaining the P2P site EliteTorrents.org.

Dove's conviction is the eighth resulting from Operation D-Elite, a federal crackdown against the illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over P2P networks employing the BitTorrent file distribution technology.

A warez webmaster just got 18 months too, story here I hope the ball keeps rolling:winkwink:

You'd think it would stop, but with the way things work in other crimes, I'd have to say
there will be a new person who will try it again.

People being busted for doing this is nothing new.
The only thing new was it was on the internet.

People think "It's so easy so it must be legal".
They fail to realize that most crimes are easy to commit, it's getting away
with it that get's hard.

Bump for more guys getting nailed.

i just wish we would start locking up the font site guys, damn witches

some of the best torrent/share sites are private, invite only....

good luck finding them....

they have thousands of people in jail for drug dealing... how's that working out.....:2 cents:

I am surpsied there isn't more response to this - bump to the top