Online DVD seller jailed
p2pnet news | crime:- Sharing is one thing, but illegally selling copyrighted works is another, although the entertainment cartels would have you and the public at large believe they’re the same.
An Illinois man, though, now knows the difference.
Timothy W. Hall, 35, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, was jailed for two years after admitting he infringed copyrights by selling unauthorised video games on his site, www.morbidbackups.net.
From at least March 2006 until September 2006, Hall operated the website from his home in Mount Vernon, says , says the US Department of Justice.
“On the site, Hall advertised the sale of hundreds of copyrighted video games on recordable compact disc for the Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and other video game platforms. He also offered DVDs containing copyrighted movies and television programs,” it states, going on:
“Hall admitted that from approximately 2001 until the fall of 2006, he was paid more than $266,000 for the unlawful reproduction and distribution of the copyrighted works.”
Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), as well as the Entertainment Software Association and their member companies, “assisted and cooperated” with the FBI, says the DoJ, also stating:
“On May 10, 2006, an online undercover agent of the FBI placed an order on the defendant’s website for copies of 70 different Xbox video game titles and 48 episodes of the television series ‘24′on DVD.”
Also See:
US Department of Justice – Illinois Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Selling Thousands Of Copyrighted Video Games And Movies, August 2, 2007
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August 7th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Selling software that you don’t own is a crime…and it SHOULD be a crime.
But it is STILL different from p2p. There is no selling in p2p…and if there IS, then it is NOT p2p.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am
p2p makes a lot of money off of pirated works. Look at the pirate bay. probably worth 10 million dollars now.
MOST P2P sites are RUN for money, these days.
Keep it free. that’s the rule
August 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
TPB does not make the money off of pirated works anymore then google does with their search feature that lets you search for .torrent files for example.
That TPB’s searching for .torrent files is better then the way google provides this feature, and that because of that more people visit TPB then google for that task is not TPB’s fault, nor does that fact constitutes “profiting from piracy”.
You don’t have to pay to visit TPB or use their infrastructure, do you?
August 7th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Why is it that an american citizen can not sell pirated software.
BUT over in CHINA, they USE pirated SOFTWARE to run most of there business.
We throw money at CHINA and they become richer and richer and use stolen technology and pirated software, that american companies have to pay for.
Read the book China Inc. And see america is going down unless there is a change.
http://www.amazon.com/China-Inc-Superpower-Challenges-America/dp/0743257359/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9143329-6940012?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186543597&sr=8-1
August 8th, 2007 at 1:23 am
To Reader’s Write #1:
File sharing copyrighted works, like it or not, is still a crime for the U.S. Whether you sell it or distribute it for free is still considered copyright infringement, except selling is a bigger offense.
Whether it should or should not be the case is irrelevant because it’s the law. It’s just like illegal immigrants saying that crossing the border and living there should be legal, when it’s further from the truth.
However, if you want to do something about it, petition for there to be changes to the law from the DMCA (Digiatal Millennium Copyright Act) so the law would be more lenient towards free file-sharing. The trick is getting the Congressmen and Senators to agree.