Following up on the last story I posted, we have news of another sentancing for a p2p pirate; this time the admin of the "uploaders" from EliteTorrents.org. Charged on one count of conspiracy and and one count of felony copyright infringement, Daniel Dove has got 18 months in a federal prison, and a whopping $20,000 fine.

It's still nowhere near the 10 years in prison he could of faced, but justifying putting someone in jail for 10 years for uploading things to the internet would be incrediably hard for even the best prosecutors.

Following up on the last story I posted, we have news of another sentancing for a p2p pirate; this time the admin of the "uploaders" from EliteTorrents.org. Charged on one count of conspiracy and and one count of felony copyright infringement, Daniel Dove has got 18 months in a federal prison, and a whopping $20,000 fine.

It's still nowhere near the 10 years in prison he could of faced, but justifying putting someone in jail for 10 years for uploading things to the internet would be incrediably hard for even the best prosecutors.

A fairly prolific pirate, who supposedly uploaded over 50,000 files to an FTP based piracy site, has today been sentanced to 3 years probation, much less than the 5 years jail time that was originally proposed.

The 58 year old, Robert Hardick, operated the warez site The Boxer Rebellion with a group of others, who are currently awaiting trial, but are expected to see the same sort of sentancing.

It confuses us and Zeropaid why the government are wasting time and money going after people who are not in it for the profit? Surely that is a civil matter?

We all knew the case against the Pirate Bay was going to be a hard one to press charges, and find evidence for, so it's no suprise to see the case has been delayed once more, possibly until 2009. If you can remember now, it was well over a year ago that the prosecutor Hakan Roswall announced his intention to sue the site for damages from pirated material.

In fact, hell, I'll be suprised if it ever gets to court.

Another Zeropaid sourced post, but this is an interesting one for everyone; a developer has recently asked the internet why they are pirating his games, and asked for confidential responces detailing reasons, so he can try and change things. It's turned out that, as expected, a lot of it is down to cost, although there have been some suprises; like people downloading as they do not know if the game is worth buying, and finally the big ol evil DRM. It makes an interesting read, so check it out here

An RIAA backed comic which is being distributed in schools and the like is scaring children into not filesharing in their later life by saying that they will face jail time if they do share copyrighted files. Not only is this an unfair way to do things, forcing fear upon children, but it is in fact a blatent lie; only the very very big inital distributors of material have ever gone to jail; as the majority of cases have been started by the RIAA rather than the state.

Shape up, RIAA.

Peter Moore, once the head of xBox, Dreamcast, and now leading ea sports, has condemned the action of publishers suing their fans who download games. He says although it is most definitely stealing, the answer is not to punish; but to make games which cannot be experienced properly unless bought (ie, perminant online connections). Referencing the music industry, he goes on to talk about how demanding money from consumers just makes people even less likely to buy your product.

Thumbs up to Peter Moore.