p2pnet - rss feed: Norwegian jailed for 3 months
p2p news / p2pnet:- A 34-year-old Norwegian accused of sharing movies online has been jailed for three months and fined 10,000 kroner (more than $1,530).
The man was sentenced in Oslo in September but the news wasn’t announced until yesterday, says VG Nett.
The court was told that last year the accused man provided movies and software for an international group named VeritasBB. [Note: I Googled it. It’s just a forum.]
Norwegian police opened an investigation after their German counterparts had started investigating the forum’s Norwegian members, says VG Nett.
“The man has been cooperating in a larger international network where the members had multiple roles”, police advocate Espen Skjerven is quoted as saying.
According to Skjerven, members scanned for vulnerable networks and, “When these were found, some of the others broke into the networks and set up FTP servers.”
The computers were ‘fed’ with copyrighted material by the last part of the group, the ‘fillers’, the police spokesman said
Skjerven wouldn’t say if other Norwegians are under investigation in the same case.
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October 13th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
As much as I hate the cartel-government alliance, this guy got what he deserver if in fact he actually did break into other people’s computers. If on the other hand, only shared files, then that would be a travesty of justice. The government-cartel alliance is everywhere and has to be fought by all freedom-loving people. However, stealing services and breaking into the computers of fellow citizens is not necessarily the right way to do it.