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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+74Yet i can sell drugs to kids and receive less of a sentence? God bless corporate America!
- jellygraph, on 10/10/2007, -3/+55lol, what a stupid system, they'll send people to jail for anything these days... what a great way of turning him into a more hardened violent criminal
- ReturnToFreedom, on 10/10/2007, -6/+43This is ridiculous. The guy didn't hurt anybody. We don't know how much revenue was actually lost because not everyone who pirates would've bought the ticket to the movie or the DVD. Years in prison for cutting out the MPAA out of its profits? Damn, their lobbyists are sure doing their job. We elect leaders only so that the people with the real power, the money, give us the illusion of being in control. We are not in control. I'm starting to lose faith in this country's ability to repair itself. There are just too many damn things wrong with it.
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Yeah, butt it's only fair. I mean look at all the Halliburton execs in jail for ripping off taxpayers for billions of dollars. I mean, based on how much they stole, they are probably in jail for life. Or look at all the brutal cops in jail.
Oh.... wait... that doesn't happen.
Yeah, the system is broken. ***** it, and ***** the people that run it. - LogicBomB, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25I've said it once and I'll say it again - jail is not the place to send nonviolent criminals. Feel free to restrict their freedom within society - ankle bracelets, heavy fines, higher taxes, etc...
To me, jail is a place to send people that aren't safe for the rest of society. I could pirate every movie ever made and I'd still help an old lady pick up her groceries, give a stranger bus fair and tip the pizza guy.
Crazy world. - IShouldBeWorkin, on 10/10/2007, -5/+24To me, i read 'conviction' and think it went to trial...its kind of easy for the MPAA to win this one when the guy confesses. I dunno i just expected more legal precedent to be laid out here than what actually was.
- dodger2020, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19This guy was charging people to download cams and rips. That's just stupid of him. Of course they're going to go after him.
- zouhair, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Man and you think it's normal that a system can let MPAA exist in the first place?? It's ***** up
- Ghoztt, on 10/10/2007, -8/+22I think it is really sad how "ART" is something that only the people with money may have the privilege to experience in our society... What a sad state we live in. :(
- UWake911, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15These cases should never be criminal, only civil matter. The type of case is not important enough to warrant criminal proceedings, plain and simple.
- MetalLizard, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13It's called Capitalism. Live with it, or change it. Basically survival of the fittest put into economic terms.
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11well... drugs are good.
- LogicBomB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Regardless of whether or not he sold it to his friends or sold it to a million people - he is no threat to your average person. He should be heavily fined and restricted but throwing law breakers in jail for every crime is retarded. If they are non-violent there is no reason why they can't still interact with society.
- str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Copyright laws are so ***** up, these corporations twisted the entire meaning behind the copyright and I'd even say they went as far as to illegally alter what copyrights actual are. They used bribes and lobbying to make it so they push back the date to which a work enters the public domain, it used to be something like 50 years (after they lobbied it), and now they've pushed it even further then a 100 years. Pretty soon nothing will enter the public domain - meaning they've successfully skewed copyrights to protect their interests (read: profit).
Copyrights were originally meant to expire, and then the works would add to the greater and more noble pursuit of knowledge - but no so more with ***** like the Valenti (deceased) who helped Corporations ***** the average end viewer/user. - ahhell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Wow that was terrible. You fail at life.
- WozzaShaw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Its quite sad that i can get the same punisment for downloading a movie, as going to an old ladys house, roughing her up a bit and then stealing the movie from her.
What happend to the chap from Enron, oh yeah i remember, ***** all. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -3/+8No matter how hard I worked for a film, I still don't want to send anyone to jail because they pirated it.
If I worked hard enough on a film and it flopped, chances are it was going to flop whether or not the guy bootlegged it. If I worked hard on a film and it was a huge success, then I couldn't care less if a few people download a poor quality cam of it.
Piracy doesn't have a big enough figure to make or break a film.
***** the RIAA/MPAA. - Predater, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It's has now become a cliche to shout "***** the MPAA" get diggs... sad
- Burgerman851, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Wow. 5 years for ripping the copyright management out of DVDs is way over the top, yet if I jerked the GPL off of something, death would be too good for me.
It's nice to see that many here are consistent, if nothing else. - Cirrius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5WHEW I Feel Safer Already knowing this man will be behind bars.
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why is that sad? The MPAA needs people to operate. If those people start to fear constant harassment, the MPAA will fall apart.
The MPAA is a mafia. They deserve to be on the receiving end of mafia tactics. - superspud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4IANAL, but I think it is around the same 5ish year point.
- Username222, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I am pretty sure the MPAA and RIAA prefer not to take things to "real" court. They prefer kangaroo court instead...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court - hiphoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This country is not truly capitalist. We have the governments supporting corrupt wasteful corporations. There is no free market when special laws are passed for huge companies and the little guys get *****. Its called Fascism, or as Mussolini said Corporatism. When the gov't and corps get to gether to oppress the people. The web is true free market capitalism. Thats why the powers that be hate the web. You have a good Idea, a good song. Put up a website and promote and you can make it. If the fair market or even playing field of the web were in day to day life. America would look different. A lot of giant companies would die quickly. A multination can just write off billions of dollars in loans, or have the gov't bail them out over and over again, that ***** is not free market. Thats why the web is so powerful. A digger in his basement can go up aginst the RIAA or anyother big multinational and run rings around them. Because of this, news papers are dying, TV news (liars) are dying off. Its called competition. So to everyone out there wiht an idea, do something and and lets show people what a free market really is!!!
- freebit50, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6As a point of reference...if a person committed murder, they can be on the street again in 7 years.
- meez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's called the economy :|
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The MPAA has hijacked the CRIMINAL law system to help them fight against ECONOMIC or TORT damages.
They did this by bribing politicians. The MPAA should rot in jail, not DVD rippers. - MScrip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Thank god they caught this guy. I'm glad they went after him... instead of the drug dealers, rapists and child molesters.
- moxley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Everthing is being criminalized - There is a pretty good book about this called "Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Everything."
You can find it on Amazon. This is very serious in my opinion and is another aspect of how the US has become a police state. A lot of these things are clearly civil matters that are being criminalized at the behest of corporations. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That's actually what I think. Practically every day people cause fatal accidents due to their driving negligence. Most of the time they get probation or community service. Knock back a couple of beers though, and drive up to a dwi checkpoint? They'll lock your ass up.
- hiphoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Prisons are for profit corps. now. So they lobby the gov't to pass stricter laws so they can get more residents. Kind of ***** up but look at "Corrections Corporation". There is a huge prison industry and its getting bigger by the day. They got to do something to fill the jails up. We are supposd to be a free country and we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world per capita. Something is wrong, meanwhile criminals at Halliburton and other multinationals get off. But when criminals run the government they outlaw normal behavior and criminalize everyone else. All the while making their behavior seem normal. Basic psychology folks.
- Pudwhack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I completely agree.
- lowerlogic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Additional reading materials on kangaroo court: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court
- naonao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The US justice system succeeds again. Nice to see someone removing copyright protection from movies which shouldn't be there in the first place is getting more jail time than rapists and child molesters. Really got your priorities straight don't you?
- spraguep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well he knew he was breaking the law and he even admitted it; that is his ***** problem.
- Nightfall, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3He was selling the rips and cams of these movies. From the article:
"It’s claimed that the movies were then uploaded to servers for other users to download, after they had paid Madhani cash to do so."
Sure, people here like to say "***** the MPAA", but the simple fact of the matter was that he was breaking copyright law and was profiting from it. A far cry from some anonymous downloader or uploader who wasn't making any money off it.
Its readily apparent that those people who are spouting that nonsense didn't even take the time to RTFA. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The rest of us here on digg live in a state called Reality.
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Are you honestly saying that everybody who has a pirated version of Photoshop would buy it if they couldn't find it for free? I somehow doubt that people in poorer countries who don't earn US$2000 a year would buy a US$2500 piece of software.
- wendelgee2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Uh. Except one of the main tenants of Marxist communism is that art and the products of culture should not be owned/bought/or sold, but shared freely. Sort of like that bike system in Paris where you grab one, get to where you're going, then leave it for someone else...but with art.
- Jade10145, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2My question is this, with all of this concern about terrorism etc., why are federal law enforcment agencies getting involved with people who steal movies...Shouldn't they be dedicating more of their resources to other important things...
This seems like law enforcement by dollar amount? - Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Racketeering has been illegal for a very long time. Longer than the US has been around.
- NoSalt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is COMPLETELY ridiculous!!! I've heard of rape, robbery, and murder convictions that were just as short or maybe a bit longer. What the fu*k happened to priorities in this country?!?!?!?
- bilbravo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2@playedalive: So in summary: He did wrong, his actions warrant some sort of punishment. What's the problem then?
- kakti, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone know what release group he was in?
- cijoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1andergriff - he's not an "Arab man" as in from Arabia. He would have let you crash on his couch. http://care.couchsurfing.com/profile.html?id=9XGP25
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yea, so?
- MisterZero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hey, he was dumb enough to get caught. But still, the whole thing about being a racer is stupid. Just because you put it out first doesn't mean anything I think. The article writer thinks that will be covered in the future, but shouldn't it be the same no matter when you release copyrighted material?
- bilbravo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3@BobTurtle: Good point.
@ReturnToFreedom: I'm tired of this logic that "not everyone who downloads it would have bought a ticket". If you like something enough to want to see/hear it, you should pay for it. If you're not willing to pay, you don't get to watch it. So, yes... for every person who steals it--they lost that revenue. You can't run in to a store and take something and not expect any retribution.
(here comes another argument about not being stolen, it's not criminal, it's civil, etc) - el_taco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Unless it's the numbers racket run by the goverment.. I mean the lotto
- cijoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1andergriff - he's not an "Arab man" as in from Arabia. He would have let you crash on his couch. http://care.couchsurfing.com/profile.html?id=9XGP25
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