FastLink, Site Down indictments
p2pnet.net News- The first federal indictments based on the FBI’s Hollywood initiated FastLink and Site Down ant-p2p operations have been made public.
Charged by with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and copyright infringement are: David Lee Pruett, 34, of Auburn, Washington; Alexander C. Von Eremeef, 30, of Belmont, Massachusetts; George C. Stoutenburgh, 48, of Bennet, Colorado; and Jerry M. Melvin, Jr., 24, of Roanoke, Virginia. Charged by Information with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement were: David Chen Pui, 26, of Fountain Valley, California; Shawn W. Laemmrich, 30, of Calumet, Michigan; Scott John Walls, 45, of Spokane, Washington; and Franklin Edward Littell, 48, of Martinsville, Indiana.
“In the past four years, beginning with Operation Buccaneer in 2001, Operation Fastlink in 2004, and Operation Site Down last month, the Department’s prosecutions of top piracy organizations have been unprecedented in size and the degree of international cooperation achieved,” boasts the US Department of Justice.
“Operation Buccaneer alone has yielded a total of 30 U.S. felony convictions and another 10 convictions overseas, and Department prosecutors are still seeking the extradition of the Australian leader of one of the principal warez groups dismantled by that operation.”
This is in reference to the infamous DrinkorDie case under which the DoJ is trying to brow-beat Britain into handing over ex-DoD member Hew Griffiths.
Earlier this month, four people were indicted as part of Operation Site Down, adds America’s top prosecution agency.
“Cases like these are part of the Department’s coordinated strategy to protect copyright owners from the online thieves who steal and then sell the products they work so hard to produce,” it says
But, “The charges contained in the indictments and informations [sic] are allegations only and the defendants are presumed innocent until convicted at trial,” it adds.
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See:-
FastLink – FBI’s Operation Fastlink, p2pnet, April 22, 2004
Site Down – Operation Site Down, p2pnet, July 1, 2005
Operation Buccaneer – Thin End of the Wedge, p2pnet, April 8, 2004
infamous DrinkorDie case – DrinkorDie men jailed, p2pnet, May 6, 2005
four people – Operation Site Down: Part II, p2pnet, July 15, 2005
July 29th, 2005 at 1:23 am
Steal and “sell”? From what I recall they didn’t sell anything, but just gave it away.
Thats the FBI for you.
July 29th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
There are many things more important than this kind of “conspiration” (against the profit of the more-useless-than-us-you-die entertainment industry ?), after all, millions of americans have guns, isn’t that a conspiracy, ah ah ?
And the conspiracy to make us believe in the existence of a god that blesses America (like it blessed nazi Germany I guess) or the existence of Jesus (there’s only the bible that says so). And “terrorists” that never kill morons like Bush, Blair, Gates and the rest of them but help them set a new kind of dictatorship that is leading us to total destruction, what a conspiracy.
Hey entertainment industry, fuck off, I’m still free to think and to act as I want, not as you’d wish !