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- Zippo, on 06/30/2008, -13/+290I think I speak for us all when I say,
***** THE MPAA - BelatedHero, on 06/30/2008, -7/+231Our prisons are overcrowded and we're sending people to jail for this?
- sk11, on 07/01/2008, -11/+219Bank robber: no one ***** with me, I shot up banks!
Murderer: that ain't *****, I smoked ***** cops man. Yeah, that's right *****!
File sharer: I seeded a file using the bit torrent protocol.
Bank robber: oh my god, help me jesus!
Murderer: mommmmy!! - WallnutBoy, on 06/30/2008, -6/+138Another comrade lost.. Sigh
{takes off hat} - Br3ach, on 07/01/2008, -3/+114I want to know exactly how the sentence for copyright infringement is more than some people get for 3rd degree murder. This is asinine.
- LANjackal, on 06/30/2008, -4/+90Ummm ... hosting a BT tracker in the US is about as smart as selling grenades at a TSA checkpoint. Sad story but the truth is Dove made a few really poor calls.
- dougvfr750, on 06/30/2008, -10/+85OK, that's a little scary
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -3/+65they can't get us all!!!!
- TheHayze, on 06/30/2008, -4/+63Just coz he has the possibility of getting 10 years doesn't mean the Judge will sentence him for all those 10 years. He may only get a few months like his buddies, and probably even probation.
But still. This is crazy, as the MPAA supplied all the evidence to the FBI, and the DoJ to do their fighting for them. That alone seems quite questionable.
Cite: "The evidence was apparently enough to convince the jury of Dove's involvement. He now faces up to 10 years in prison and will be sentenced on September 9, 2008." UP TO 10 YEARS. Doesn't mean he will get 10 years.;-) - artfiend77, on 07/01/2008, -0/+57*pours a little liquor for his fallen homies*
- jasongbc, on 07/01/2008, -11/+66Someone should shoot their lawyers.. once a few of them die off nobody will want to work for them anymore. Is this message illegal?
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -2/+50It sounds like this guy has just validated the Pirate Bay's policy of not hosting content at all. If he had a server with content and was actively recruiting people to download and seed it, then he was probably doomed. I hope they let him off with a light sentence. As Belatedhero opined earlier, our prisons are too crowded to be locking people up for this type of thing.
- fr3ddie, on 07/01/2008, -1/+46not sure.... is digging you up illegal?
- KurtangleTN, on 07/01/2008, -6/+46FEDERAL POUND YOU IN THE ASS PRISON
- 0gre, on 07/01/2008, -1/+37You are absolutely right. However it is quite sickening to me that in this country the act of copying a file over the internet has the same potential prison term as rape or assault with a deadly weapon.
- humanerror, on 07/01/2008, -20/+56Meanwhile George Bush walks free while hundreds of thousands lie dead at his feet
- synapz, on 07/01/2008, -5/+40The purpose of imprisoning individuals is to protect society from people who do others real, physical harm. No one should be imprisoned for non-violent crimes - drugs, filesharing, whatever. If no one is hurt, why are we trying to protect society from them?
- artofficial, on 07/01/2008, -0/+29.com
- blackmesa, on 07/01/2008, -1/+2910 years for a 'crime' in which no physical threat was posed to anyone in the community?? For a bastardised "white-collar" crime, no less? Why is prison even a possibility for anything computer related? Prison is meant to physically separate a threat from society. The damage he did (if it could be argued he did) was solely economic.
You know, by ending up in prison he has more chance of becoming an _actual_ criminal, who will perform _real_ crimes when he's out.
No wonder the US has the highest per capita prison population. That's a ***** up way to run a so-called "justice" system. - beingdevious, on 07/01/2008, -4/+31legalize pot and make the criminals behind this spend time in jail.. ***** THE RIAA/MPAA
- shadowmoose, on 07/01/2008, -2/+22So in the wake of all these legal threats has anyone here actually stopped downloading songs and such?
- Yez70, on 07/01/2008, -1/+21First off, you are obviously believing the brainwashing the industry is putting out.
Copying a file or downloading a file is not illegal. Making it available to others is the issue.
Second, you're right - the punishments for distributing content do not fit the crime.
My cousin was riding his motorcycle drunk and hit and killed a 5 year old about 20 years ago after a graduation party. He got 3 years in prison and 3 years of probation. If he had copied a cassette tape and gave it away to his friends, he would have gotten 10 years? This country is messed up. - rsHoratio, on 07/01/2008, -1/+20That dude is going to get messed up in prison. I can see it now....
"What you in for?" "I murdered a whole town over a pair of shoes, you?" "I pirate movies and games" - inactive, on 07/01/2008, -1/+19I agree with you, even if you are in the usa, register it under someone else, and host it in another country
- twiztidsinz, on 07/01/2008, -0/+18PeerGuardian doesn't provide 100% protection.
Anyone who thinks that is a damned fool.
But less than 100% protection is still MUCH better than zero protection. - ChillyEli, on 07/01/2008, -1/+19I think of it this way.
When P2P came out, with Napster, early adopters got busted and then people worked on a new method (torrents).
Torrents came out and I still feel it's early in the game (or just super late). Torrents beat out P2P any day now and some people are now getting busted.
We probably are just going to need to get a new form of file transfer now. Or adapt.
The music industry has done this to us (8-Track, Records, Cassette, CD) and so has the movie industry (Tapes, DVDs, Blu-Ray). We are learning from our mistakes (like don't host a site in the states). Eventually pirates will win. It's just a matter of time till we work out our kinks.
It's sad to see you go Daniel but thank you for helping us pirates in the constant learning on how we can stay alive. - Coolmatt49, on 07/01/2008, -0/+18If you get caught torrenting, you're not going to white collar resort prison. No, no, no. You're going to ***** federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison!
- traxen, on 07/01/2008, -0/+17He hurt the ego of the MPAA ... and now they are mad..
MPAA: Gotta have that 4th car in the garage you know... Stealing punks ... Bah!, I'll teach him a lesson he will never forget. We will never change or evolve.. we will be doing this until the day we die .. Dont you try to teach us something with your silly little filesharing methods.. We will strike hard.. cause we have the money on our side. - Shaman760, on 07/01/2008, -3/+19Can't speak on the MPAA (I'm not involved in that industry)....
As to the RIAA, What you are seeing is the entity gasping for breath in it's struggle to survive. More and more musicians (myself included) are distancing themselves from this draconian, top-heavy bloat of non-creativity. - fauxXenophanes, on 07/01/2008, -1/+15Good thing we got the Feds in on all the really heinous crimes. Great use of all those federal funds...
- TGMD, on 07/01/2008, -31/+4510 years is a bit much, he harmed no one.
But fines on the other hand, YES!
MPAA/RIAA may be dicks but that doesn't mean they don't have the right to enforce their copywrites.
Okay now digg me down. - Vlux, on 07/01/2008, -0/+13Thank you American justice. I will now live peacefully knowing that people like him are off the streets. Oh the horrors of P2P!
- bjornski, on 07/01/2008, -0/+12Well, safer anyway.
PG isn't totally foolproof. - inactive, on 07/01/2008, -1/+13A possible 10 years for transferring 0s and 1s over the internet... Sounds about right for the American justice system. You can get less time for killing someone, but I guess it just depends who's on the prosecution (MPAA or RIAA = you're screwed).
- Antixian, on 07/01/2008, -0/+12yep prison is a business.
- Chaos12, on 07/01/2008, -0/+12File sharing has went up considerably everyday since its inception.
- Carl306, on 07/01/2008, -1/+12I don't know about you, but I'd sure as hell rather have people who illegally download pirated material off the internet in jail instead of murderers, rapists, etc...
- bjornski, on 07/01/2008, -2/+13I still download as much as I did, but I only seed the porn.
/gotta keep the ratio up ;)
I'll go see the bands I like (if I can afford the scalpers ticket prices), but I'm sick of paying for their label owner's Mercedes or Lexus, cocaine and $500 "business lunches". Much less, helping RIAA/MPAA fund more of this *****. - krnldmp, on 07/01/2008, -1/+11Honest to Jeebus the entertainment industry has too much money. If it wasn't a racket already it wouldn't be so hard to protect. You think the world's best artists actually have anything to fear from BitTorrent?
- DontGiveADamn, on 07/01/2008, -1/+10There is nothing illegal about sharing torrents.
- fpaudon, on 07/01/2008, -6/+14Still, pirating = stealing, and seeding = helping others steal. On the other hand, jail time is a bit harsh...
Go ahead and bury this - styx31989, on 07/01/2008, -1/+9Your right. He did something wrong, and he should get punished. I download Movies/songs/games all the time and I should be punished(but I probably won't :D). But sentencing people with jail time in our already over-populated jails is just ridiculous. But they could have been more smart with this :P
- umbrellainabin, on 07/01/2008, -9/+17***** BUSH
***** THE RIAA
***** THE MPAA
***** THE IFPI
***** THE BFI
***** VIACOM
***** COMCAST
***** MEDIADEFENDER
***** AT&T - calantus, on 07/01/2008, -2/+10and we wonder why, the US has the most people locked up in the whole world. We have the most stupid laws. (and i know another reason why we are number one is because other countries give the death penalty for much less than we do, but still.)
- speakindoodles, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7The comment above say it all. Naomi Campbell beats up some people and only gets probation while this dude gets 10 yrs??!!
- DownloadThis, on 07/01/2008, -2/+9I've stopped sharing them via P2P. :)
- level10, on 07/01/2008, -1/+8*****.
- thepretext, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7No, but they can get you, and then you'd be *****.
- Graves138, on 07/01/2008, -1/+8This is god damn ridiculous. Federally funded prisons are not there for corporate interests. This guy did nothing what so ever to harm society.
- Hangly, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7The baby boomer generation is the most antisocial group of people ever to exist. They declared war on their parents for having too many stupid rules not letting them "do their own thing," and now they've made up a bunch of stupider rules and are at war with their kids because they won't follow them.
Please, baby boomers, ***** die already. -
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