Help Scott to stay out of Prison
Written by Ernesto on September 15, 2006Scott McCausland, the man who pleaded guilty in a BitTorrent case this week, now invites everyone who sympathizes with him to write a letter to the judge on his behalf.
Scott admitted to the judge that he was involved in managing to popular “private” BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.org. He also told the judge that he uploaded copyrighted content more than once, including a copy of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith”, several hours before it was officially released.
By pleading guilty to “conspiracy to commit copyright infringement” and “criminal copyright infringement”, he now faces up to a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
In a response to our previous article Scott links to this statement.
Dear Users/Geeks/Techies/All-In-Between,
This is Scott McCausland, yes, the one who just plead guilty to a BitTorrent case held on September 12, in Erie, PA.
The reason I am releasing this is because I am going to ask that anyone who feels the need, or, feels some type of desire to see me not spend the maximum of 5 years per count in prison, if you could please write a letter directed towards the judge on my behalf.
Please direct it towards: U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin.
Please send letters/notes to: freeme@sk0t.comIf you want to be heard in this matter please do so professionally and without ill-intent. I will not edit any of the letters (however I will read them first to make sure they wont hurt me in any way).
Please, do not let this become anything more than it has to be. Do not let me get made an ‘example’ of because of the popularity of Star Wars.
Thanks,
Scott McCausland
sk0t/MindHunter
Time for some action!
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Não adianta essas industrias lutarem contra a maré, essa é uma revoulução, é melhor aceitarem agora e não pegarem ninguém para Cristo.
Boa sorte para você, espero que a humanidade se preocupe com coisas mais importantes, do que compartilhar cultura pela internet.
César Kallas.
Break the walls, break the handcuffs, live the freedom.
Prepare a standard letter for us to send to the judge.
That’s all folks :-P
É um direito de todos compartilhar informações.
Por isso apoio sua causa, a industria tem que remexer e criar maneiras de criar receitas com as novas tecnologias.
Elcio Figueiredo
Please Mr. Judge,
Set him free !!! He was just helping everybody !!! Thanks
tem mmais é que prender essas figuras nefqastas!!!!!
apoio sua causa ao inves de ir atraz de um crime tao besta eles deveriam era prender o OSAMA kkk
You are guilty of being a person beyond our time. You are being punished by people and laws that doens’t belong to the 21 century. And they will loose this war. In fact, they aready loosed it. I wish you luck, man, and don’t give up. When you get out of the jail, you will see a much better and free world.
As gravadoras estão lutando para manter uma realidade que já está morta, se fosse possível, elas iriam querer que quando você escuta uma música numa festa ou boite, se não paga está pirateando. Mas tudo está muito diferente hoje, eles querem pegar alguns para servirem de exemplo, não ligam para as leis, eles (as gravadoras) querem ganhar dinheiro. Se não mudarem os conceitos, podem prender um ou outro, mas vão gastar todo o dinheiro que arrancaram dos artistas e usuários para isso.
Free Torrent!!!
Sr. Juiz
Por favor, dê mais uma chance ao rapaz. Aqueles que ganham com os programas e filmes que são veiculados já estão bastante ricos. Faça-o assinar um acordo que permita que o mesmo pague pelos prejuízos causados a longo prazo. Perder a liberdade por causa de alguns milhões de 0000 e 11111 não é algo que seja essencial.
Voto pela liberdade do rapaz.
Obs. Não sou a favor de bitorrents. Não uso e não recomendo.
Pedro Augusto
hi, my name is Carlos and i live in Brazil.
right now, we have a millions of kids hungry, people who dont have any money or food, just to stay alive, people are beeing killed, murdered, dying of serious deseases, and a thousand problems more serious than that, and what they do ? waste time sending young boys from prison just to share files. THIS IS INTERNET, NOT THE REAL LIFE, INTERNET IS OUR PLACE TO DO WHATEVER WE WANT, WHENEVER WE WANT.
the world is seed with greed, just like the producers. they’re are RICH even if half of their films or albums are beeing shared on the internet. they’re just looking for our money, they don’t care if a young man life is destroyed.
Scoot do something illegal, but look at yourself in the mirror for moment. think if you NEVER do something wrong, if you never act wrong, if you never download a song from internet that you not found anywhere.
judge when you go home, see if your kids, if someone in your family, if a friend of yours are downloading a song from internet, are watching a movie in the PC, if they dont use illegal tools over the net.
maybe they can spend sometime with Scott on the prison too, beeing molested by many of murderes and all that kind of person.
think about it before send Scott to jail.
TORRENT OWNZ
INTERNET IS OUR PLACE.
Cinematographic industries still make a lot of money with your abuse moneys, art is rigth of people and torrent is way to popularize cinema, music and other midia.
Sorry, I am Brazilian and don’t say English well…
But I leave here my indignation with this decision of “Justice” American north…
And I wait that this is reverted…
I with you Scoot!
Hi, i’m Bruno, a law student from Rio de Janeiro.
In fact, the Law Science intends to apply the norms in accordance with the social yearning. It’s true, and notorious, that 99% of the population in earth don’t have money for spending with leisure pleasures; and it’s exactly what the media coerces everybody to desire - popstars, Hollywood movies, Broadway… Any single 3 years kid in Bangladesh knows who is Michael Jackson, and they don’t have even money for food.
The XXI Century’s media created a monster: the need for something that nobody realy needs. And, if they profits rivers of money by one side, they have to hold the wave of the demand.
We have the basic rights, that appeared in the French revolution (to the life, to the dignity…); after them, with the welfare state come the social rights (to the adequate wage, to a place to live…); and, by the social yearning, we have another type of rights that are intrinsics to the dignity of human being, called society rights, that includes the right to the information and culture (to the movies, to the music), the right to the environment…
Based on that, our friend Scott was just fighting against a need that the proper society created. What kind of freak would be Scott if he doesn’t knew Madonna???
Based on that, and certain that U.S. Constitution consecrates the rights of a democratic republic, i ask for the absolution of Scott.
Thanks, and contact me for what you to need.
Hello,
I’ve never used EliteTorrent, but I’m deeply shocked to see a young man, that never committed any crimes, sentenced to 5 years, for nothing. Nothing ! He never earned any money, he just helped people to share what they had, for free.
In a lot of countries (Holland, Canada, etc…), it’s not illegal to download copyrighted stuff if you don’t make money with it. Majors make cd for 1 bucks, they sell it 20 bucks and this guy go in jail ?
If he really deserved something, it should have been suspended prison.
Injustice.
[quote comment="12384"]Scott committed a crime,but the punishment should fit the crime. For a family man who works with disabled youth and has never even had a ticket, this punishment that he faces does not.
We have people in hte uS killing, raping children, robbing banks at gunpoint and multiple offenders, that are not getting half the punishment Scott will get, which is 2 years, and 3 years monitored.
The punishment they are giving him is a crime.[/quote]
You kill someone, shame on you. You steal money from people, shame on me?
Planet earth is full of shit people! Corrupt lawyers get paid and controlled by money interest of fucking greedy cocaine addicted assholes like RIAA, MPAA and so on. 5 years in prison for that is not human! In usa it has so many gangs. Why you guys don’t get organized and bomb the headquarters of RIAA, MPAA.
I haven,t got a legal argument for scott, i wish i did,all i can say is i live alone,i,m single, i have no real freinds, except for a couple i,ve met on the internet,a new movie comes out,one id like to see but who wants to sit in a movie theatre alone,maybe there,s other people out there in the same boat,but thanks to scott for making it possible for people like me to go to the movies.
good luck scott
People who commit murders, robbery… ect. usually have something to think about so going to jail is supposed to give them time to think about what they’ve done and how its effected there society. You cant make scot go to jail to think, ‘yep, shouldn’t of downloaded all those things’ a fine will do that. Not a live changing destroying thing like this. Wife Children, criminal record. He may not get another good job in whats left of his life after they steel five years of it.
Sick.
Boycott the fat cunt george luca!
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