EliteTorrents admin jailed
p2pnet.net News:- The US Attorney’s Office has admitted Hollywood’s purely commercial MPAA worked with Andrea Sharrin, senior counsel for the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and S. Randall Ramseyer, assistant US attorney for the Western District of Virginia, on a p2p file sharing case.
EliteTorrents administrator Scott McCausland had already pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and one count of criminal copyright infringement in violation of the Family Entertainment Copyright Act.
He faced five years in jail, a fine of $250,000, and three years of supervised release.
Now Grant T. Stanley, 23, has been sentenced to five months in jail to be followed by five months of home detention, “for his role in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) network previously known as Elite Torrents,” says the DoJ.
“United States District Court Judge James P. Jones also sentenced Stanley to a $3,000 fine and three years supervised release,” it states.
Stanley’s conviction followed Operation D-Elite, described last May by Homeland Security, the FBI’s Cyber Division and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement as, “the first criminal enforcement action targeting individuals committing copyright infringement on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks using cutting edge file-sharing technology known as BitTorrent”.
BitTorrent is now firmly ensconced with the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and fairing handsomely as an official corporate organization.
Also See:
Scott McCausland – First US BT user nailed, September 26, 2006
DoJ – WISE, VIRGINIA MAN SENTENCED IN PEER-TO-PEER PIRACY CRACKDOWN, October 17, 2006
first criminal enforcement – Elite Torrents takedown genuine, May 25, 2006
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