p2pnet.net News:- In October, Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) was boasting it’d been working with the US Attorney’s Office, the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and an assistant US attorney for the Western District of Virginia, on a p2p file sharing case.

Targeted was 24-year-old EliteTorrents administrator Scott McCausland, and now the Western District of Pennsylvania says he’s been sentenced to five months in jail, to be followed by five months of home confinement for copyright infringement.

In October, Grant T. Stanley, 23, received the same sentence, “for his role in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) network previously known as Elite Torrents,” said the Department of Justice.

US attorney Mary Beth Buchanan, “commended the various law enforcement agencies who conducted Operation D-Elite, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the Department of Justice, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, the San Diego Police Department, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, and San Diego County Probation, for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of McCausland”.

The SPCA wasn’t mentioned.

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Also See:
was boasting - EliteTorrents admin jailed, Ocober 27, 2006.
Western District of Pennsylvania - Defendant Sentenced in Online Piracy Crackdown, December 19, 2006

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