Elite Torrents Admin Scentenced, Gets 18 Months, $20,000 Fine
 

Just opened the lastest FSC newsletter today and found the below article. Looks like a small step in the right direction toward slowing down the wanton copyright abuse being perpetrated by ILLEGAL Tube sites.


Daniel Dove is the first person ever to be convicted by a jury in the US for using BitTorrent to illegally distribute copyrighted material.

Several months ago I mentioned how 26yo Daniel Dove had become the eighth person to have been successfully targeted as part of the Department of Justice's "Operation D-Elite," which so far has resulted in the convictions of seven former leading members of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker site. Fellow admins Scott McCausland, Grant Stanley, Sam Kuonen, and Scott Harvanek all plead guilty to similar copyright infringement charges rather than take their cases to trial.

On June 27th, 2008 a federal jury in Big Stone Gap, Va., convicted Dove, formerly of Clintwood, Va., on one count each of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement making him the first person ever to be convicted after a trial by jury in the US for using BitTorrent to engage in criminal copyright infringement. He faced as much as 10yrs in prison.

The jury was presented with evidence that Dove was an administrator of the site's "Uploaders," who were responsible for supplying pirated content to the group. The evidence showed that Dove recruited members who had very high-speed Internet connections, usually at least 50 times faster than a typical high-speed residential Internet connection, to become Uploaders. The evidence also showed that Dove operated a high-speed server, which he used to distribute pirated content to the Uploaders.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich then announced yesterday that he had been formally sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James P. Jones to 18 months in prison for "...his role as a high-ranking administrator of a P2P Internet piracy group." In addition, Dove was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and fined $20,000.

At its height, EliteTorrents attracted more than 125,000 members and distributed about 700 movies, which were downloaded a total of 1.1 million times.

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Hey Jake! Long time no see. How's life?

Where is Sticky to tell us that Torrents cannot be stopped? That we mine as well work with them.

Funny as more get shut down, and have legal issues he's very quiet about it.

Hey man, yeah it's been a while. Things are great here. We'll have to catch-up at the next show!

Countdown to GideonGallery's armchair lawyer opinion, referencing Betamax.

insert timeline picture here

you know with the number of repeated post
it would be a good idea to maybe just have a custom tag to do it

sorry to disappoint but i read the case law, they limited themselves to evidence of movies which were not released yet (leaked copys for review purposes only)
no purchased rights means no fair use rights

no time shifting, no back up, no recovery

and supposedly they proved he knew the content was not authorized

so no safe harbor either.

of course i mentioned it way back when mr rebel first posted this story.

if you want arm chair lawyering you can go this thread

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...6#post14812496

as i predicted the pirate bay did win the isp level block on appeal.

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Wow! Guess I should have titled this thread, "Would you hit it".

it because your almost 20 days late on this

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...=elitetorrents


the original thread got all the views and posts