p2pnet - rss feed: Iowa man Fastlink’s first victim
p2pnet.net News:- An Iowa man is the first person to plead guilty to charges following the US Department of Justice’s Operation Fastlink when FBI agents, acting as tax-payer funded corporate enforcers, raided schools in Arizona, last April, looking for digital movie and music files.
It was, part of, “the most far-reaching and aggressive enforcement action ever undertaken against organizations involved in illegal intellectual property piracy over the Internet,” said the DoJ at the time.
Behind the raids were the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), (BSA) Business Software Alliance and ESA (Entertainment Software Association).
Now Jathan Desir, 26, graduate secretary of the University of Iowa’s computer science department in 2002/2003, has pleaded guilty to a three-count copyright infringement charge and faces a possible 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced on March 18, 2005.
He admitted to conspiring with other individuals to, “construct and operate two separate computer sites that provided a library of copyrighted software, including movies, games, music and business utility programs,” says the DoJ, going on:
“This case is a significant effort by an entire team of investigators and prosecutors dedicated to prosecuting software piracy.”
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See:-
far-reaching - FBI’s Operation Fastlink, p2pnet, April 22, 2004
15 years - FIRST ‘OPERATION FASTLINK’ DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO ONLINE SOFTWARE PIRACY, DoJ, December 22, 2004
December 26th, 2004 at 7:19 pm
why dont they start giving people life sentences for J-walking too.
This is precisely what the framers of the constitution wanted most to prevent.. the government IMPRISONING people on behalf of the wealthy elite!
the copyright clause of the constitution has become a massive hole through which all our civil rights are being flushed.
December 27th, 2004 at 7:53 am
But, the person was selling hard copies of softwares etc! You think he shouldn’t go to jail for that? Keyword selling, that’s the problem here! This is not p2p! and unlike p2p, they deserve a large fine, or to go to jail for it. I don’t care about the surcomstances, and most software there really is no excuse for dling it. We all do it , but there is a real issue with it, bla bla bla, I’m serius but I don’t like rambling about that bull%$t
serrebi101[sorry I’m to lazy to create an acount, I might already got one too I’m just to lazy to log in heh heh]
December 27th, 2004 at 4:57 pm
hmm I doesnt say that thay wre selling anyhing… It gives the impression that they were running servers only.
December 27th, 2004 at 5:46 pm
ok. my typings a little off today. I ment to say:
The story does not say that they were selling anything… It gives the impression that they were running servers only.