Filesharing Review > Virginia Man Gets 5 Months in BitTorrent Copyright Conviction

http://www.dmwmedia.com [Digital Media Wire | connecting people & knowledge] Stanley, 23, of Wise, Virginia, pleaded guilty to the charges related to Elitetorrents, a site for which he was a network administrator that made the latest "Star Wars" movie available online hours before its official release.

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http://www.p2p-weblog.com [P2p-weblog.com] P2P File Sharing: Main Page - The Insider's Edition: Today there are ubiquitous MP3 players, storage on keychains, phones, and soon in cereal boxes, and decentralized and dark P2P networks. Computer hard drives can hold one hundred thousand songs, the equivalent of an entire label and a magnitude more than anyone owned on CDs, much less vinyl, a decade ago.

http://rekcah.wordpress.com [Rekcah.wordpress.com] Wise, Virginia Man Sentenced In Peer-To-Peer Piracy Crackdown ...: STANLEY, age 23, of Wise, VA, was sentenced to five months in prison to be followed by five months of home detention for his role in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) network previously known as Elite Torrents.

[Sbytes.info] My Blog: This morning, agents of the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed 10 search warrants across the United States against leading members of a technologically sophisticated P2P network known as Elite Torrents. Employing technology known as BitTorrent, the Elite Torrents network attracted more than 133,000 members and, in the last four months, allegedly facilitated the illegal distribution of more than 17,800 titles - including movies and software - which were downloaded 2.1 million times.

Digg.comhttp://digg.com [Digg.com] digg / jlabs / dugg: jlabs submitted by jlabs 20 hours 38 .in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) network previously known as Elite Torrents.

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