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Kino.to Admin Gets 2,5 Years Prison Sentence

On June 11th 2011, Europe witnessed one of the largest piracy-related busts in history.

The popular movie streaming portal Kino.to was shut down and a dozen people connected to the site were arrested. As collateral damage, several file-hosting services connected to Kino.to also went down.

In total 13 persons connected to the site were arrested, and last Friday a 33-year-old web designer was sentenced to 2,5 years in prison by a Leipzig court.

The man confessed being part of the site, and is the first person who’s convicted.

In the ruling the judge noted that “at kino.to it was purely about making money.”

During the investigation the police discovered bank accounts totaling 2.5 million euro.

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  • Anonymous

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  • Cabbage

    Problem is it’s not always about the money – ads get money… how can webmasters stop that? They need ads for server fees – yet they generate profit from that… :-s

    • Guest

      I support filesharing and I think that could be a legit excuse but it won’t work in court.

  • http://twitter.com/Mathew30 Mathew Lisett

    they didnt profit from the content, they gain payment via their ads which were legal. 2.5 years for what has been proven to be a site full of consumers. nice way to treat their consumers provider

    • Mwhahaha

      So were all their visitors going there to see the ads and not the content?
      Your argument’s just odd.

  • John Z.

    No sympathy here. They were making money off other people’s work. These are the people the RIAA and MPAA should be going after.

    • townie2

      lol. ironic. isn’t that exactly what the RIAA and the MPAA do? i mean, they make money off the musicians and actors, when was the last time you listened to a song sung or written by the RIAA?
      meanwhile, newsflash: convicted child molester found guilty of conducting sexual acts on 3 nine year old girls gets 1 year in jail. what’s wrong with this picture?

    • LOLZ-JOHN-Z-AKA-RIAA

      Hey dickwad…Usually when you advertise you get money to cover your expenses (also known as cost). If you have a surplus of this (also known as profit), what do you do? You start a filehosting called Duckload (also known as expansion). It is evolution as its best – If Darwin didn’t notice animals evolutionizing where would you be right now? At a desk with a pen and paper and no computer. Wake up you moron; they had 2.5M EUR in the account, of that how much was used to pay affiliates on duckload, cover the server cost, buy new server, the bandwidth etc.? Perhaps you should try to make a site and see how it runs around with no “ad money”. Muppet

      • John Z.

        There isn’t much point arguing with a moronic twat that can’t see the difference between covering costs and stashing millions in bank accounts.

        • LOLZ-JOHN-Z-AKA-RIAA

          zOMG you a hater that they could make money and expand and you’re stuck on a 9-5? Go hate some more. RIAA Shill

      • Sam124

        ‘evolutionizing; – surely the word is ‘evolving’?

    • napoleon had your mom

      “No sympathy here. They were making money off other people’s work. These are the people the RIAA and MPAA should be going after.
      show more show less”-John Z.

      you my friend are a douche bag. the RIAA and MPAA should hire your brown-nosing ass. The RIAA/MPAA make money off other peoples work, and at no other time in history have they ever made as much as they are today… so no sympathy here for the pigs at RIAA/MPAA

      • John

        Learn to read dumbass. I didn’t say I like the MPAA/RIAA but at least they have some legal ground to make money from others as opposed to these thieving scum that give NOTHING back to the artists.

        • LOLZ-JOHN-AKA-RIAA

          And thus you’re just another shill for the RIAA and MPAA. Kino.to offered SHARING for people. FREE sharing. Don’t see you do that you dumb cunt. All you do is bitch like a prick, download like a prick and sit on a torrent forum giving off comments like you’re helping to share. All you are is a brownnosing cunt and a shill.

          The MPAA/RIAA has never given anything back to the artist. Wake up and read some more. Shill.

  • Guest

    People doing worse crimes get less years in prison!

    BOYCOTT international MAFIAA now!

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  • Benjamin Stroud

    Don’t drop the soap!
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  • Mwhahaha

    Can’t say I agree with the profiteering from other people’s work. Sharing is cool. Making cash isn’t. If they’d got that much cash in profits, they could have killed the ads for a while, they could have donated a lot of it anonymously to say, a freedom of speech charity. But they cynically sought to do what the movie companies do. Make money off other people’s work.

    We should really be against this kind of pirate. Does the Pirate Party in German have anything to say on this case? They should really speak out on it, might make them appeal to more people.

    I still think that kinda jail time is pointless tho. Just take away their money and their servers and keep an eye on them. Prison really should be about either reform or keeping away people too damaged to be reformed. Locking up anyone who isn’t a threat and can be punished in other ways is just a waste of Govt resources.

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  • Herptyderp

    Cool. So there is a gap in the market for streaming? And i can earn millions?
    Brb, going to google in what country to set up my server.

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