Warez Bust: MaGE Leader Sentenced to Prison
Written by enigmax on November 04, 2007A 27 year old man has been sentenced to prison on one felony count of conspiracy to infringe copyright in his capacity as leader of the warez release group ‘MaGE’. On top of this he was also fined $5000 and ordered to serve 2 years supervised release.
Last week, District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Justin Paul Emch for his involvement in the ‘warez scene‘ - specifically an offense claimed to have been carried out when he was leader of the release group ‘MaGE‘.
Emch was indicted in yet another action forming Operation Fastlink - a huge undercover investigation carried out by the FBI, the US Department of Justice and Interpol into the ‘warez scene’
It’s claimed that Emch was a leader of the group ‘MaGE’ and worked to supply the group with software. Other members of the group then cracked the software (removed the security/copy protection) and passed the titles back to Emch for testing. The group had a huge collection of copyright material to which Emch had full access.
For his actions, Emch (like a few before him) received 12 months in prison on a felony count of conspiracy to infringe copyright, two years of supervised release and a $5000 fine.
Presumably the authorities will be wanting to keep a tighter grip on Emch than they did with the leader of RISCISO who proved to be quite an annoyance.
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the way i look at it is.. if they dont want people cracking there programes then they should make the darn things so we carnt crack them.
if they dont want us to use p2p then why dont they creat something to stop it dead.
Now yes its posible to do his and they have all the money in the world to but reason why they havent done it is cos they are tight fookers that dont wanna pay.
I bet bush sits there downloading music,films, i bet the cops do. i bet most of the fookers do but are to stupid to admit it.
Look at demonoi there doomed, they would have to start all over again, they need new domain name and a fresh install of there tracker and start members over again, its the only way for them.
The admin will run out of funds to keep moving demonoid to diffrent servers.
At end of the day if these goverments dont want us doing what we are doing then they should stop it, if they think they can then do it. they are only concerned cos its gonna cost to much money and they dont wanna pay out.
Well give up then and stop trying to bug us into giving up on what we are doing.
We will stand for our rights and always do what we are doing in warzz/torrents world no matter what you say.
Me personaly dont care what you do, i pay my taxses and i work my azzz off..
I have my own torrent site and me running it doesnt break any law. i dont personaly copywrite anything
i dont sell any of it.
Get your facts right, torrents sites dont even have the freaking movies,music,appz on the servers at all.
All we have is a id file to the torrent.
Learn trackers before passing the buck on us.
Theres wars and people dieing and theres alot more places and people that need real attention and help why are you bothering to fook us over when you have better things to do? why carnt you do whats right and help out thoese that are in need of help, why carnt you go arrest the people that realy need to be?
Why carnt you stop the fooking pervs mingling with kids,
why carnt you go stop the people that kill for fun?
why the fooking hell are you messing with us?
we do p2p for fun and it doesnt hurt anyone or anything(well apart from my harddrive)
I will never stop doing what im doing on this internet il keep my site up no matter what and if you banged me up so be it atleast i stood up for myself..
Il sit in my cell happy knowing i defended myself.
fook you cops.
Go do your job where its best served
Ah yes Mage, with excellent releases such as Master Landscape Pro.
Bye!
hey kids lets not send rapists killers and corrupt drug dealers to jail ! instead lets pick on teh copyright downloaders and pirates !!
awww justin. poor guy
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