RIAA Celebrates 15 Year Jail Sentence For Movie and Music Pirate

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November 12, 2012
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The RIAA has welcomed a mind-boggling jail sentence handed to a man who sold pirated movies and music. The 37-year-old man pleaded guilty to six felony counts of selling counterfeit media after he sold five movies and one music CD to an undercover investigator without the permission of copyright holders. As a result he will go to jail in Mississippi for 15 years to be followed by three years of supervised release.

As a general rule we tend to cover digital piracy issues here on TorrentFreak, but every now and again a copyright-related story appears in the physical realm that makes us sit up and listen.

The news comes from the United States and involves Patrick Lashun King, a man who was involved in the selling of counterfeit movies and music.

According to police, King was arrested at his business in Hazlehurst after an undercover reporter from the Attorney General’s Intellectual Property Theft Task Force managed to buy a total of five copied movies and one music CD from the 37-year-old.

Subsequent searches at King’s work and home addresses turned up computer equipment for copying and a total of 10,500 pirated discs. Police also confiscated weapons although they do not reveal whether they were legally held or not.

The case, which was investigated by the Attorney General’s office and Hazlehurst Police Department, eventually saw King plead guilty to the sale of the five DVDs and one CD. But despite his apparent cooperation, King received the harshest sentence for a copyright infringement offense that we’ve ever seen.

Judge Lamar Pickard in Copiah County Circuit Court ordered King to serve a total of 15 years in jail to be followed by three years supervised release.

“This sentencing demonstrates that theft of intellectual property is treated as a serious crime in Mississippi and highlights the fact that the individuals engaging in these activities are frequently serial criminals for whom IP theft is simply the most convenient and profitable way they could steal from others,” said Brad Buckles, Executive Vice President, Anti-Piracy, at the Recording Industry Association of America.

“We extend our thanks and appreciation to Attorney General Hood for his leadership in IP enforcement and to the dedicated law enforcement officers and prosecutors who worked on the case.”

At this point we should mention that 17 years ago King was sentenced to five years for assaulting a police officer and in 2003 he did serve a year under house arrest for CD piracy. Nevertheless, 15 years seems like a sentence one might associate with particularly serious violent crime, not the copying of digital media.

And when it comes to tough sentences, King is apparently not on his own. Two weeks ago another man, Antwun Sharell Jones, was sentenced to two years in a Mississippi jail for selling a single pirate movie.

Piracy may not technically be theft, but the signs are that judges in the United States believe it’s a worthy equivalent – and then some.

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Gargamel

Thank God I don’t live in the USA
- Guest
  
  Don’t use the word “god” if you wan’t to be taken seriously. It’s ridiculous in the days of science.
  - Corsec
    
    It’s just a phrase you fucking moron.
    - Guest
      
      I’m sorry, but that is just a lame excuse. I bet it has a well defined meaning for almost all strangers that actually believe in fairy tales.
    - Snicker
      
      “Thank Science I don’t live in the USA” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lol. :-p
    - FuzzyDuck
      
      Thank random luck that I don’t live in the USA!
    - Hallu
      
      No, it is not ‘just a phrase’, it’s Neuro-linguistic programming !
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
    - Ulost
      
      Fanatic atheist, you’re silly, make something better with your life.
    - Grateful
      
      Thanks to the academy, to the hood, to teachers, to cells, to Halle Berry and her tears, to Oscar, to cats and dogs and to all of those who made possible to not live in USA, a big “thank you”, Universe!!
  - http://profiles.google.com/orfetheo Orfeas Theofanis
    
    It’s also ridiculous denying something you have no clue about.
    - IHaveNoBalls
      
      What are you saying exactly?
      That its ridiculous for him to deny a god exists because he doesn’t know anything about god? (A thing which doesn’t exist)
      
      Whats that suppost to mean? I’m confused
    - Truth
      
      People and their imaginary friends with super powers of magic.
    - Anonymous
      
      Considering the universe is, as far as we can tell, an isolated system, if a being or higher power created it then we wouldn’t be able to tell so long as the universe remains an isolated system. Hence, one cannot prove or disprove the existence of a creator entity, pending direct interference from said creator entity if such an entity exists.
      
      So why does it bother people if others do or do not believe in a god or creator entity? It’s impossible to prove either way, and the personal beliefs of others do not harm you in any way, so why the hell do you care what other people think and believe and subsequently try and pass off your own unprovable beliefs as facts?
    - Masau Fuku
      
      @Anonymous – I wouldn’t care if people believed in the god you describe. Unfortunately, very few do. Most believers believe in a god that regularly plays a part in this universe, and many try use their belief in a deity to force other, unrelated, beliefs onto others (and society as a whole). “Traditional” marriage, abstinence only sex ed, anti-abortion/anti-contraceptives, insane views on rape, pseudo-science, ect.
      
      However, while it’s not provable that there is no deity that created everything and then left, there’s also absolutely no reason to believe in such a deity – just as there is absolutely no reason to believe there is an invisible pink unicorn in my garage. Treating belief and non-belief as equal when there is no evidence at all to back up belief is ridiculous.
      
      Even so, if a belief in a deity didn’t so often come with other unreasonable, immoral, and simply incorrect beliefs and those holding the belief in said deity weren’t so often trying to force that and other beliefs on the general population, I wouldn’t really give a shit if people believed in it.
    - Ray Lowe
      
      Say something or shut, up!
    - Zzzzz
      
      “It’s also ridiculous denying something you have no clue about.”
      Utter rubbish.
      I could claim I have an invisible foul mouthed goblin living on my shoulder, you can’t see or hear it, does that mean it’s ridiculous to deny it’s there?
    - MrWaffles
      
      @IHaveNoBalls
      You frequent a Torrent News site to repeatedly talk about God – we get it, you’re a bible thumper, now go take your thoughts to a religious forum
    - Guest
      
      I don’t want to live in this planet anymore.
    - https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
      
      Like Goblins & Elves you mean?
  - Religion And Guest Are Dumb
    
    thank god I dont sound like you, you retard
  - Andrew me
    
    Seriously take your hatred elsewhere, it is not welcome here
    - Tedjimby
      
      typicall bloody americans for ya? so retarded…….
  - Zenamez
    
    I’m no religious person but I do have one thing to say- In what universe do you live in where you can tell others what they can and cannot say? If he wants to say “thank god” as a general phrase he should be able to do so without someone like you chasing his heels. If he has a valid comment, he will be taken seriously regardless of how he says it.
    - Bloaxor
      
      Amen brother.
      
      OH WAIT I’M GETTING RELIGIOUS AGAIN OH NOES FLAMEFLAME
      
      Honestly, nonsense is what we call this. “Don’t use the word “God” if you want to be taken seriously.”
      
      You shouldn’t be handing out hostile “advice” on a topic you quite clearly just blundered pretty damn badly in.
      
      Failure to do so results in imminent, justified bashing.
    - Hallu
      
      Nobody is entitled to their own FACTS !
      PROVE that ‘God’ exists or STFU .
      (Yes, the burden of proof is on YOU – The God-nutters .
  - Jimmydorry
    
    Don’t spell like a retard if you want to be taken seriously. (*Hint: “wan’t”)
    
    I’m not even going to mention your poor sentence structure, as I doubt you could comprehend.
    - youmusthavenofriendsfaggot
      
      Nerd.
  - GrowAPair
    
    What the fuck is wrong with you? I’m an agnostic brought up in a very religious household, and I couldn’t care one way or the other if someone says something like, “Thank God.” In what way has that harmed you? Do you realize that what you’ve just done is the equivalent of a Jehovah’s witness knocking on someone’s door trying to convert them?
    - Hallu
      
      No, I don’t ‘realise’ because it really isn’t ‘the same’ .
      
      Jehovah’s witnesses think you should let your children bleed to death .
      FUCK THEM – Even ‘Satan’ reads The Bible better than they do .
      And I bet you he also knows how to spell YHVH !
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004028825546 Horace Klein
      
      The problem is the God-nutters interfere with things like the progress of medical science, try to teach things in science class about the origin of life that is obviously nonsense, go around bombing people who belong to other tribes of God-nutters and try to appropriate the money I pay in taxes to create educational programs that perpetuate God-nutterism.
      
      I don’t care what anyone believes so long as it doesn’t affect me. When it does, then I start being concerned.
  - Armaniangod
    
    Wow, keep up the good work on trampling people’s beliefs. Like we don’t get enough of that shit from everyone else for Christ’s sake.
    - Guest
      
      Then please do us all first a favor and keep your highly questionable believes in your own minds and out of the public and politics. It’s 2012 and not 1400.
    - No_extra_money
      
      wait…. Why is it not ok for someone to say they BELIEVE in a greater power, but it is ok for you to bash on them?
      if both people are saying what they believe, then how is it one way is right and the other is wrong? i do not believe in a god but i was raised very religious. i think you get the choice to think what you want. If it makes your day go by better reading your horoscope every day or “doing the right thing” so you get to pet your pink unicorn that lives in your garage then so be it. i dont think you have a unicorn, but hey, who am i to tell you soooo?
  - Violated0
    
    You seem to overlook that over 90% of the World’s population believes in one religion or another. Science and Faith are two very different things and where people can have various degrees of both.
    
    Anyway Gargamet was using a common phrase that bares no testament to the degree of Faith or exact religion if any.
  - Guest
    
    Oh look, an imbecile on the internet. What a novelty.
    
    You’re an ignorant if you think science in any way rejects the possibility of a creator and you’re also a fool for thinking science has developed past infancy let alone be at any level to make such a definitive claim.
    
    But honestly what can I expect out of a 13 year old, selfishness being all you know you’d willingly take away a crutch that helps people live another day- a hope that gives life a meaning and a happiness even if you believe it to be fake -out of sheer stupidity.
    
    The story of your life, I could turn it into an awful drama.
    
    The only thing you’re running on is a medieval level pride, after all what does it change if people believe in a God in this day and age? N-o-t-h-i-n-g~ most definitely not for you.
    
    Now run along and take your underdeveloped mind along with you, all the edgy 15 year olds at /r/atheism just can’t wait to meet you I’m sure.
    - Guest
      
      @Guest
      
      There it is – the typical argument that is favored by most christians: They accuse you to be a minor whenever they smell the slightest possibility to do so and then they will tell you how useless and “underdeveloped” you mind it. It’s always the same lame pattern that is based on totally outdated world views.
      
      I tell you what. Most minds of the people you are refering to are more developed than the minds of average or fundamental christians.
      
      I also want to write about a different thing. It’s finally time to make it illegal to bring the people you are refering to in contact with religion of any kind until the age of 21. It’s pretty easy to mentally abuse those people and brainwash them in favor of your religion, eh? That shouldn’t be allowed and I bet your churches would be empty if they forbid you to abuse your offspring or other children.
      
      “…you’d willingly take away a crutch that helps people live another day- a hope that gives life a meaning and a happiness even if you believe it to be fake -out of sheer stupidity.”
      
      In other words. There are people that are in need of an imaginary friend in order to be able to handle the RL? I would question the mental health of those people.
      
      By the way. What’s the matter with the phrase “willingly take away”? Are you hallucinating? No one is actually able to steal or to block thoughts. No one is able to take those thoughts away from you. It looks like you see different opinions of others as a threat and that actually makes you to look “underdeveloped”.
    - Breno Seifert
      
      As an atheist I’m ashamed of your behavior.
      
      You know what – Thank God not all atheists are assholes like you!
      
      As Nietzsche said you are a slave of the truth. A truth you will never get or grasp.
      
      Sickened by science’s reality you want to impose your beliefs on others and make their life just so horrible as yours are.
      
      Did you know that having religious beliefs can enhance your life expectancy? If you wanna die, go die alone, don’t take others with you mother-fucker.
      
      Did you know that religious beliefs are peculiar to Homo Sapiens Sapiens? Neanderthals so far had no religious beliefs. And that made life exceedingly hard for them.
      
      Fuck-off Neanderthal and let the humans be marry among themselves!
    - Gen. Eric Guy
      
      Funny thought I had about our “Guest”:
      He’s not a fan of religion being imposed amongst everyone; however, he’s imposing Atheism on everyone.
      
      Are you some sort of hypocrite, Guest? You’ll blend right in with the rest of us “Bible-thumpers”. Despite being a religious follower, it does piss me off seeing people like you forcing your beliefs on everyone. My people do that too, and I’m not proud of them either. Let people live their life, and stay out of their business.
      
      I don’t mind Atheists; I know several, and they’re a pretty decent bunch. ‘Not all of us are hostile dicks.’; If I can learn that about you guys, maybe you should also accept that truth about religious people as well (regardless of what religion they are); I even accept other religions. Whatever makes them happy, and lead a decent life, and act like decent people. Some are just self-motivated and self-sufficient (no need for a god). Some of us, however, aren’t so lucky, and need some supernatural help, whether it actually exists or not. Sometimes, even imagination is a powerful thing (A pink unicorn can even verify as a potential god for all I know.). If it can make a god exist, then why aren’t we tapping into that power and potential? Nickname it ‘Spiral Energy’ or ‘Pure Willpower’ for those of you that don’t watch anime.
      
      Just because you don’t believe in a grand meta-physical entity that is possibly so freaking colossal, it has the be measured in dimensions beyond physical/visible scope (think a mathematical entity that spans so many dimensions, it’s impossible to visualize it with our limited scope of vision (we can only see in 3 dimensions, 4 if you make time-space a dimension as well; God could span past 11 dimensions (to the point of being able to exist, and not exist simultaneously, as all & nothing, alpha (to/and) omega, and all that other crap), and would be a bitch to render His true form (principalities and powers and similar beings beyond are kinda annoying in that regard); closest thing to properly render God’s image would probably be one hell of a fractal image (which oddly enough, when you think of it, lines up pretty well with some descriptions of God’s numerous angels and arch-angels in form; numerous wings and eyes, and eyes on wings and etc. Sounds like a fractal image. For all we know, math, itself, literally visits us and communicates like we communicate with machines to do stuff for us. For all we know, we’re just numbers in some meta-physical computer, to It.); and that’s still just an abstraction, much like how we use His image as a bearded dude in the sky looking over us)), doesn’t mean you need to be a such dick about it.
    - jw915
      
      “You’re an ignorant if you think science in any way rejects the possibility of a creator”
      
      Personally, I don’t reject the possibility of a creator, I just find it implausible that any creator would the the feeble minded, evil dictator that Christianity postulates he is. I don’t think that he goes around inseminating random women, burning bushes, or asking people to sacrifice their children. And if he did, he wouldn’t deserve our respect or devotion.
    - BuddhaFacePalmed
      
      Thank the All Seeing Pink Fluffy Unicorn of Elysium that people have free will to choose what to or not to believe in.
    - 21i9783e79
      
      Does science reject the possibility of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?
      Grow up you inferior piece of shit
  - Adam
    
    torrentfreak, can you please start deleting off topic comments? its crazy how off topic junk always overfills the comments, and I cant see what people think about the article, which is what we need to talk about.
    - farquad
      
      Maybe yours should be deleted then.
    - Barsey
      
      Agree.
    - cgimusic
      
      I had to scroll half way down the page just to get to the first non-athiest circlejerk comment.
  - Herman
    
    “wan’t” Fooking lawl
  - Spencer greff
    
    The internet is a bad place for people like yourself.
  - Anonymous
    
    No guest, you’re a fucking aspergers moron.
  - monkeyslap
    
    Jesus Christ you’re a fucking troll! (And so are you Guest) :P
  - Death
    
    That is right but hopefully we will be able to celebrate the death of a top entertainment executive soon. Hopefully.
  - roadkill
    
    +1
  - Zebra52
    
    Go boil yout head, you pompous prig.
  - Gen. Eric Guy
    
    You happy Guest? You derailed the comment board.
  - JustaGuy
    
    I thank your Mom I don’t live in the USA
  - No_extra_money
    
    ROFL at guest…. why is ok for you to say how you feel/believe, but not someone else? your thoughts are the only ones that count, right?
    
    hypocrite much?????
  - http://twitter.com/iamkeithmason Keith Mason
    
    Rose tinted spectacles much?
  - BooHoo
    
    Go die in a fire you cockroach!!
  - Davstudent
    
    That’s so idiotic.. I’m an atheist but I use god as an exaggeration.. “That was one hell of a movie” doesn’t mean you believe in hell..
  - eli eli
    
    why is it wrong to believe in something? people have the right to choose. freedom meaning not having to agree with everything YOU believe in.
  - https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
    
    FSM?
  - Anonymous
    
    Thankfully I don’t live in US :) Then again, even my own country is bending over when they come barking and that is worrisome.
  - LockHood
    
    Since when has atheism become the norm ? There are millions of people who believe in God and every human has a right to his views . You must be one of those who can’t wait to get the internet censored , judging by your total disregard for a fellow human’s views and opinions .
  - Guest
    
    What is the world coming to when an article about piracy turns into a theological debate. Atheists and Jesus freaks alike: get a life.
- JOHN MAIDEN
  
  Your country’s next. Assclowns like you are why freedom’s dying.
  - Mxivueis
    
    buuuuuuuurppp
- Gulliver Foyle
  
  Selling 5 Pirated Movies and one 1CD.
  Fifteen years.
  
  Killing someone with a car while drunk. ?
  Robbing a bank (w/o violence). ?
  Robbing a bank (with violence). ?
  Beating your wife or someone else to within an inch of their life. ?
  
  I KNOW someone who have received 6 yrs for stealing $3,500 AND (at the same time) 2 1/2 years for ‘unlawful restraint’ (took a hostage).
  
  Justice is Blind, Democracy works, Everyone is Equal, etc.
  
  Pardon me while I try to keep from vomiting.
  - Wall
    
    The crime is he was stealing some little money from the riches, you know, that always was a big crime in every century and era.
  - Guest
    
    RIAA is full of idiots.Fuck the government for listening to these idiots. In 15 years they won’t be able to control filesharing anyways.
  - derp
    
    Killing someone with a car while drunk – 8-10 years on manslaughter
    Robbing a bank non violent – 8 years
    Robbing a bank armed – 12-14 years
    Domestic abuse/violence – 6-8 years
- Latawanna
  
  this is show called ” I almost got away with it season 4 episode 4, I watched it last night and said to myself, tf should have a story on tyhis guy soon, and i check tf 2 min ago and there it is :-)
- The_Strawbear
  
  Don’t use the moniker USA when as we’ve seen this month those states are *far* from united…
  
  And leave those smurfs alone too, you swine!
- ANIME99
  
  THis is 2012 ! there is no GOD in this era! you must be cannibal! You should evolve!
- MikeJ
  
  If you don’t live in the US, that means that you can probably be sent to jail for blasphemy or offensive speech or any of a large list of things that are legal in the US and illegal in much of Europe and Asia.
  - Guest
    
    You are such an IGNORANT, is easy to tell that you have never been outside US, come to any part of Latin America, you download speed is only limited by how high is your data plan with your ISP, here you kill someone and you get 40 years, and you can go naked cursing and blaspheming on a main road and you will get 72 hours in a police station and just a large fine. If you download a couple million songs and sell them nobody cares, we have been to universal parks 100 bucks for a day pass, the amount of money they have is just ridiculous, and they complain about P2P, they are just rich people living on the stone age.
    
    But hey you are on the land of freedom, so who am I to question you.
- Matt
  
  You don’t have to live in the USA to get arrested and prosecuted by the USA… even if you commit a crime in another country, the MPAA and RIAA will try to hunt you down. The USA is the world police. By the way, I live in the USA, and I think it’s as F—d up as everyone else does. Corporations rule our country.
  - Matt
    
    It looks like I am the only other person in here to reply about the article and not bitch about you saying “thank god…” So many people on forums are little twats. They like to one up each other behind a computer screen.
  - sardhouse
    
    corporations RULE THE WORLD mate :D there is no hope, just buy more things you can (this help economy and families) and try to freedownload the less as possible. workers deserve to work and money. overall, free download kill the families. just a personal opinion…
- Noffink
  
  Thank Dawkins too!
- dumb
  
  just cause you dont live in the USA dont mean it doesnt put you at risk cause your joking yourself if you think not
- Abc
  
  Thank God you don’t live in the USA now especially after Obama won a 2nd term. You think it’s bad now, just wait. The morons in this country live in fantasyland where they think Republicans are the oppressive ones when the exact opposite is the truth. Republicans are for small, non-intrusive government, always have been, but the numbskulls in this country don’t believe it because they buy into all the BS Democrats feed them. Just as an example, already Obama and his democrats are thinking about selling licenses to smoke! yes, you read that right! Google it if you don’t believe me.To smoke a goddamn cigarette you have to have a license! And that’s just for starters. In 2013 they are going to start regulating the internet – In other words the US government will determine what websites people will be allowed to view. Who else does that? Oh that’s right, totalitarian countries like China, North Korea. I live in New York city which is Democrat hell, you should read the BS that goes on here, you wouldn’t believe it in a million years. We are told what to eat, where to play, what to wear, and even what we donate. People donate food to the homeless the government confiscates it uses the excuse it’s “not nutritious”. That’s where the whole country is going. It’s going to be exactly like North Korea in a few years which is why I’m getting the hell out while I still can.
- sardhouse
  
  it’s just a matter of time, and you will see the same in your country. this is a global trend. be prepared to jail mate
- Chaz
  
  What a sicko sentence. In most countries he’d only get 5 years for unaggravated murder. Something is very wrong with these control freak arseholes ….
  
  and they say the USA is one of the pillars of democracy and freedom, like shit, freedom to shit on others….. The USA STINKS VERY BADLY RIGHT NOW
  
  What an effing stinkhole the USA is!!!!
He

DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111
- yello
  
  no no, that comes after illegally selling 6 movies…
RIAA

Yeh, death penalty for teh UBERRAUBKOPIERERS!
Neb12

I wonder if the sentence would be the same for “The Color Purple”?
Welcome to bittorrent, where media meets government, meets jail time.

Fucking lames. You do less time for murder here in CA.

Four more years of Joe Biden.

In the great immortal words of Kid Rock, Fuck all ya all.
- Guest
  
  “Four more years of Joe Biden.”
  
  Unless somebody from California kill him. After all the people of California voted for the death penalty right? So it is OK to kill those you don’t like right? And while they are at it may be they can also do Chris Dod, the copyright czar lady , the CEOs of time Warner and Disney.
  
  The ten commandments you said? Never heard of it. Sorry. Anyone not a christian, a Jew, a Muslim or a Buddhist can be for the death penalty that is.
  - Guest
    
    Well, at least the sentence for killing both Biden and Dodd would be less than for sharing a file.
  - Neb12
    
    murder in this country HAS to be State ” sanctioned.,to kill . 100,500$ per movie. 20 years, per movie, murder, first strike, 16, 2 and 3
    I find smart folks, self destruct.
    
    also, careful about what you post……….
    
    I say, let the media usher………………..
    
    Are you sure you know how to hunt grizzy bear?
    - Facefuck
      
      Get off the dope son… get some fresh air before you fall asleep on your keyboard.
Gordons

Reading between the lines, 10,500 pirated discs, confiscated weapons… There’s more to this than is being openly reported.
- Fantastic
  
  Ah but the piracy sell will be their forefront reason for his incarceration (even if it really isn’t) and will be used to scare and bully as well as cover for more BS legislation to protect this dying media dinosaur and hunt those that don’t do it for profit.
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Agreed. Confiscated weapons (the guy probably had those to prevent someone from breaking into his home), 10,500 discs (that is a huge amount and they probably assumed that he was going to sell each and every one)…..
  
  That explains the 15 year sentence, though it still seems unconstitutionally harsh to me.
  - someasshole
    
    It sounds like he had a well thought out operation – yes there are legit uses for 10000 blank DVDs, but if you’ve just been caught selling hooky blockbusters, the likelihood of that decreases.
    
    This is not sharing, or caring.
    
    He’s trying to make a fast buck off of other people’s work.
    
    No defence, sorry.
    
    (15 years is harsh though – but that’s the private prison lobby – they’re worse than the RIAA! No, really, they are.)
    - Cheesethief
      
      I’m a pirate along with the rest of you guys but I can’t see the logic behind this ‘sharing is caring’ bullshit, piracy is piracy, how ever you sugarcoat it, not going to make it any more morally right
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Cheesethief, just because YOU cannot understand that sharing is a foundation of our society, doesn’t mean that the rest of us cannot. That only speaks to your personal mental limitations.
    - Neb12
      
      I agree. It’s the lightscribe dudes that give us all a bad rap.
      He had priors.
      
      He is lucky I don’t do dope.
      
      Get cyberarmy on his ass.
      
      Cheesethief. As long as it is available on what I pay for, I am going to take it. Period
- Jeff
  
  Its america, heaps of people have weapons. And if they dont say they were illegal, then they were legal. Piracy, who cares. Wether its right or wrong, no small scale piracy offence is worth that, even commercial piracy.
- Keroberos
  
  No reading between the lines is necessary, the amount of pirated materials confiscated was clearly stated. It’s just not a crime or even a civil infraction to merely have pirated DVDs in your possession, they have to have proof of distribution or attempted distribution to charge you with anything (apparently the prosecutor couldn’t prove that).
- Liam Jh
  
  I dont know much about the law – but dont most US states have a 3 strikes rule – then its a mandatory 15 years.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    Not most, no. “habitual offender” laws as the legal community calls them, have been enacted pro forma in many states but by no means all.
    
    That said Mississippi apparently has two versions of habitual offender law, colloquially known as the “Little B*tch” and the “Big B*tch”.
    
    The first one just means you automatically cop the maximum possible sentence, irrespective of any mitigating circumstance. I.e. it really doesn’t matter whether the defendant sold 6 CD’s or had supplied 6 million units.
    
    Three strikes laws are bad, given that they don’t discriminate between nicking a pizza slice or cutting someones throat very well.
http://twitter.com/Mathew30 Mathew Lisett

if this had been in the uk, he would have got into issues with the obvious undercover issue. but the pirated copies (unless he was sellign them) would have been classed as person ie its not against the law for copying cd or music.

but fuck it, this was america, as soon as he sold that small amount he was screwed. but having his stuff found at home made it worse.

but still 15 fucking years
- Anon
  
  “but still 15 fucking years”
  
  Oh, you don’t know what’s coming, too.
  This will ratchet up and up and up until lives are publicly ruined daily around the world if that’s what it takes to preserve a business model of “take what you want, pay for what you take.” This game is just getting started. For how long have I been beseeching you this? And telling you to get your pitchforks and torches if you have balls of any sort. (but wait, you don’t, your response is to hide deeper so you can keep stealing and pointing out the distinction of “infringement”.) lol
  
  Pirates have been real idiots to believe that an alliance of the artists, scientists and engineers who create, the industries who bring us the internet and market and license their intellectual property work and the governments who rely on the industries for jobs and taxes won’t go to life imprisonment, if that is what it takes.
  
  I’d certainly vote for that. :-D
  
  (makes more popcorn)
  - Notanartist
    
    LOL ..you really think artists are a part of this ……L O L
    Artists are getting screwed just like the rest of us.
    - https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
      
      OR Scientists, who gave us the WWW in the 1st place & for the most part invented sharing tech’ & things like TOR. Science is our friend generally, but there’s rogues in any profession.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    For a start there is a recorded history of more cases where police officers have beaten jaywalkers to death than there are “sentenced pirates” such as this case and Jamie Thomas.
    
    If that’s your version of “Oh we don’t know what’s coming to us” then I beg to differ. Indeed, so far we’re not looking at anything different than what happened during the 50′s when the cassette tape was invented.
    
    Secondly, if this ratchets up you honestly believe the public will stand for people being sentenced to 15 years when armed robbery and assault can carry half that sentence?
    
    Let me break down the scoreboard for you – one man just got sent to jail. And the “free information” movement just got 10,000 more adherents. Have you googled the commentaries and blogs? Have you seen what happens EVERY time something like PIPA, SOPA, ACTA or this occurs?
    
    Once again, Baghdad Bob, denial isn’t healthy. I’m pretty sure the Iraq war meant the republican guard got lucky catching one US soldier or two with a stray bullet but the outcome was still never in doubt.
    
    But then again, no sane man would truthfully claim fascism or that he’d vote for sending people making copies to jail for life. So I think we’re back to the theory of you being a living honeytrap for clueless morons such as NTP.
  - BJonesTF
    
    Except… the scientists and engineers are already against this stuff, not for it as you think. And more artists are turning against it, as it turns on them.
    
    When the Locomotive act of 1865 made any steam engine road vehicle only go at 4mph (2 in the city) and have a guy with a red flag or lamp walking 50 yards ahead to warn people, and that it had to stop whenever any horses or people passed it; I’m sure the carters, and livery stables said the same sort of thing.
    As you can see, we all use horses still. It might have taken 30 years for the UK to repeal that act, but they did eventually see sense. 30 years ago, you had Valenti’s ‘boston strangler/economic disaster’ comment.
    
    Give ti time.
    
    By the way, did you conveniently forget that 100 years ago, the artists were against recording machinery? The same sorts of outrages against it, that it was theft etc.
    
    You can’t stop progress, not because it means you might have to find another job.
  - Guest
    
    “Oh, you don’t know what’s coming, too.”
    
    I know exactly what’s coming. The MAFIAA will fail again and again until it inevitably collapses, all the while you prophesize our doom that never arrives. Yawn.
    
    By the way, you seem to be confusing physical, commercial piracy with non-commercial digital piracy. This ruling has nothing to do with us. Please learn to read.
    
    This game is just getting started.
    
    Your delusions are hilarious. I mean it, they honestly are. This game that was over more than a decade ago is “just getting started”? Sure. I also recall you saying that it was “just getting started” last year. Then the year before that. Then the year before that…
    
    “Pirates have been real idiots to believe that an alliance of the artists, scientists and engineers who create, the industries who”"
    
    The copyright cartel is an alliance of con-men. Artists, scientists, engineers, consumers, and even the government are all just their patsies to swindle, exploit, and rob.
    
    You can pretend that digital pirates are causing the industries to lose money and workers to lose jobs, but you’re rapidly running out of people who will believe that bullshit.
    
    http://www.google dot com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=filesharers+%22buy+more%22
  - Hghghg
    
    Anon your a cunt.
- icec0ld
  
  “if this had been in the uk…”
  
  He’d prolly of been extradited
  - Liam Jh
    
    If this had been in the UK – the coppers would have had a look at his stash, asked if he had a decent copy of the new Batman for sale, the copper would hand over his £5.00 go to the station make half a dozen copies and sell them on to his fellow officers.
    - icec0ld
      
      I was commenting more on a previous case where the TV shack owner got wrapped up and shipped to the US to have his life TKOed by the courts there.
  - JustaGuy
    
    Unlike Abu Qatada .. FFS
  - Liam Jh
    
    The TV shack dude was making thousands off advertising to pay his ‘server costs’, and managed to pay off his mortgage XD.
    The average UK policeman does not care about IP theft, he cares about locking up criminals ( I hope)
    - https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
      
      Yep, “greed” get’s ‘em every time. A little extra every month would (Maybe) have been overlooked but when your buying houses & shit your gonna start attracting attention. I have some sympathy for the TV shack dude but i’d have more if it wasn’t for the greed part. If TV Shack was taking up to much of his time he should of stepped back. The more smaller uploaders/sharers there are the harder it is to close them all down &/or claim they’re doing it for profit & everyone wins except the media exec’s/anti-piracy peeps.
http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

wow, that’s lame. where is america heading
- john doe
  
  And in a place named “Copiah County”
  
  The irony!
Who

this shit IS EXACTLY Y file sharing NEEDS to REMAIN UNDER GROUND!!
and also y you shouldn’t think that just because CHINA gets away with selling back up’s that YOU can to.

china as already told the movie and music industry that if they try to stop it that they can just go fuck off.
- Shitbag
  
  Yeah, running and hiding is surely going to help change the law, honest!
Glomzz

He MUST have been black. Any white guy in Mississippi charged with these type of offenses would have gotten a simple slap on the wrist.

Bunch of Racist bastards.
- DutchGuest
  
  Yes, he’s black.
  He’s also been convicted once for assault, and he’s been convicted for selling illegal CD’s before in 2003.
  And he was caught selling these DVD’s from his BUSINESS ADRES.
  Is 15 years a lot ?
  If this was a simple first time case, then yes.
  Is it a lot for a repeat offender who was stupid enough to use a Business adres to make a profit from bootleg DVD’s ?
  Nope.
  Piracy for personal use to me is fine, Piracy for profit ISN’T.
  
  On your pulling of the race card; Is it possible the Judge was a racist ?
  Certainly, but i’d doubt he’d only given him 15 years if that was the case.
  You know as well as i do that any real racist judge would have handed him 25 to life.
  
  And for the record, what is it with Americans and pulling the race card for every little thing these days, especially with criminals ?
  Just because a defendant is black, the judgement is automatically ‘racist’ or ‘overzealous due to bias’ etc etc.
  I’d say, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
  - Dan
    
    your comment has been flagged. for review for being a massive prick
    - Twattr
      
      Hope that’s a joke – only flag comments if it’s a spammer.
      
      Freedom of speech is freedom to make an asshole of yourself and the freedom of other people to call you out as an asshole.
      
      That’s why it’s good.
    - DutchGuest
      
      And why am i a massive prick then ?
      Because i feel that this guy deserved to have them throw the book at him for selling bootleg DVD’s, especially after having been caught doing it before ?
      Well i guess that makes me a massive prick then.
      
      I feel that if you download something for personal use, or to share it with others (family, close friends) that that should be fine.
      What i don’t agree with is taking someone else’s work and then making a profit on that.
      Making bootleg CD’s and DVD’s and selling them for god knows how much is scummy, and deserves to be punished.
    - 233333333333333
      
      @Twattr Atleast in The United States the first amendment places a limit on congress, and through congress the government. First Amendment does not place a limitation on a person or company to regulate speech on their Website. Therefore if a moderator wants to restrict speech on the website there is nothing to prohibit them from doing so.
    - riveroftears
      
      Truth hurts.
      Butthurt little shit.
    - DoucheGuest
      
      @DutchGuest
      
      What fucking bullshit. You’re still profiting if you receive copied works without fairly compensating the original product creator. You’re no different really than someone who labours, expending their own time and resources, to give you the product you want, even if that product is itself an unauthorised derivative of an original, legal product.
      
      Profit does not only relate to money. To profit is to come out ahead after all expenditures have been taken into account. When you receive copies essentially for free, copies that would otherwise demand a higher value than you are paying for, you profit.
    - GaucheGuest
      
      @DoucheGuest
      
      “What fucking bullshit. You’re still profiting if you receive copied works without fairly compensating the original product creator.”
      
      That’s a completely subjective definition of ‘profit’. That is, assuming you’re suggesting that by receiving goods with no monetary outlay you have made a gain. But whether or not it can be a gain is entirely dependant on whether or not you think there’s any intrinsic value in the ‘product’. I don’t mean that in an esoteric way where the digital 1s and 0s aren’t actually a product (that’s another debate), but rather that a downloader may be considered to initially ‘gain’ through downloading a creative work, but then find out that the work they downloaded is (in their opinion) crap at which point they make a net ‘loss’ (‘value’ of product < cost of broadband + time spent downloading + time spent listening/watching). You could just as easily argue that no loss is made if something is deemed crap, and in doing so you would prove the point – the 'profit' in this sense (that it is a net gain), is entirely subjective.
      
      Good try though ;)
  - Goosmoo
    
    The race card comes up because despite America’s attempts to improve relations between different demographics, there is still a lot of racism going on. Much of it is subtle, and some of it isn’t. The fact remains that blacks do tend to get longer sentences than whites for the same types of crimes. http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/black-americans-given-longer-sentences-than-white-americans-for-same-crimes?news=843984
    
    We in America still have a very long way to go.
    - DutchGuest
      
      I don’t doubt there’s still a lot of racism, but that does not explain why even in cases where there is no sign of racism on part of judge and jury, the race card is still pulled just to fuel the media reports and get folks angry and riled up.
      I’ve seen it happen a few times over the last few years, and i can’t help but feel that it doesn’t serve any purpose other than keep that deep racial division right where it is.
      
      That blacks serve more jailtime just because of their skincolour is atrocious, no doubt about it, but in this particular case i get the feeling it has more to do with the crime, the fact he’d been caught doing it before, the circumstances under which he was arrested, the fact they found a boatload of illegal copies, weapons, etc, and undoubtedly there was some meddling done in this case on behalf of the RIAA.
  - Mikemoore
    
    You obviously know nothing about which you speak. Yes this sentence was racially motivated. Yes Mississippi law enforcement is full of bigots. always has been. If you would read more than TF and PB then you would understand this. If you don’t believe this was racially motivated then it would seem that you think it is fine to throw a person in jail for 15 years for selling 5 or 6 CD’s. Maybe you should join the RIAA party. You could be a waiter there and make a few bucks to boot.
    - DutchGuest
      
      I think you really need to start thinking before you type dumb shit like that.
      This guy was thrown in jail for 15 years for being caught selling 5-6 discs, but that doesn’t mean he hadn’t already been selling tons more.
      Usually these sort of sting operations follow after weeks or months of surveilance, so who knows how many discs this guy actually sold ?
      Hell, due to the law being the way it is, he isn’t required to tell anyone, so we’ll never know unles he fesses up about it.
      
      And again, i wonder if you even read the actual news report where it’s been stated he’d been caught before, selling CD’s, in 2003.
      Or that he was selling the DVD’s from his Business adres, and that they found some guns and money as well.
      That’s counterfeiting, money laundering, illegal possesion of a firearm, and being a repeat offender…
      Again, i’m not surprised someone threw the book at him.
      
      And for the record, i lived in the southern U.S. long enough that there are sadly still a shitload of bigoted retards living there, and actively working in law enforcement.
      Like i said before, if the sentence was racially motivated i’d think the judge would have gone a lot further than just give the guy 15 years, i’ve seen a former classmate of mine get convicted for ‘manslaughter’ (aka defending himself against some drunk whitetrash dipshit), accidentally killing the dude, and getting a life sentence…
      When a judge is racist enough to consider someone’s skincolour reason enough to pull out some grand punishment, those good ‘ole boys don’t stop at just 15 years.
      
      I am convinced the main reason is most likely the complete circumstances of this case, OR the RIAA pulled some strings.
      As i’ve said before though, the dude had been cought before selling counterfeit stuff, and if you’re stupid enough to do it again, you deserve whatever they throw at you.
      Had he been giving the discs away, or trading empty discs for full ones, i’d feel differently, but again; you make a profit off someone else’s work, you deserve whatever you get.
      (reason #1 why the RIAA and MPAA deserve everything they get, abuse wise, and more)
  - monkeyslap
    
    I agree and personally I’m sick of it. In 2009 after Obama was first elected the Tea Party movement started. The news media portrayed it as “they don’t like having a black president” when the protests were about higher taxes and big government.
    
    Remember the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case? About March 2012 there was a big controversy with NBC. The 911 tape of the incident they played on the air purposely had the part edited out where the 911 dispatcher asked Zimmerman what race he thinks the person was, making it appear as though he just up and said it all for the purpose of making him look racist. And of course, with little details about the incident known even today, the Reverend Al Sharpton, as well as the news media, “convicting” Zimmeran in public and on television saying he shot the guy because he was black. Zimmerman is still awaiting trial at this time.
    
    This is the left-wing liberal fucking news media, and some politicians, that is pulling this shit. They play the race card every chance they get for the purpose of whipping people up into a pissed off frenzy, and bestowing a guilt trip on then to coerce them into accepting their ideologies. Real news is boring. Pissing people off and laughing at them is “entertainment”.
    
    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-nbc-news-editing-911-call-306359
    - Rekrul
      
      The thing you have to understand about Sharpton is that in any incident, the black people are always right and the white people are always wrong.
    - BuddhaFacePalmed
      
      And the best part of it all he wasn’t even white. Still, pulling a gun on a 17 year old is idiotic. Zimmerman deserved all that flak
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    I believe the “being a massive prick” may be a reference to lauding the fact that a guy was handed a 15 year sentence for selling bootlegs.
    
    Other than that particular issue, in principle I agree with your stance. Bootlegging, where you actually sell copies for profit, is not in any way OK. But 15 years?
    
    Even speaking from my professional perspective, idiots deserve bullets, not jail.
    - DutchGuest
      
      Well then i suggest we give Darwin his credit, and do what needs to be done : get rid of the terminally stupid ;-)
      
      Until that time though, i stand by my convictions : someone who’s stupid enough to get caught selling bootlegs twice, and having illegal firearms around the second time (which is a clear indication to law enforcement that this is a semi-professional criminal setup), deserves whatever they throw at him.
- retardedliberal
  
  Tell that to Richard O’Dwyer. Idiot.
- https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
  
  I’m assuming your a judge? STOP your racism & realise that we can live together & it IS possible to have friends, acquaintances & anyone else you meet without the colour of their skin being more relevant than the colour of their eyes (To borrow a phrase). The US seems to have an obsession with race which i wont pretend to understand & maybe it’s even justified, but the fact that you mention it here about a simple “False Piracy” case could be seen by some as slightly obsessed (Possibly?). I do however, hope you don’t have to put up with ANY racism from anyone & can have a happy life.?°?°
http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater

15 years is way too high for this crime. On the other hand, one year or less for the persons behind TPB is way too low,
- icec0ld
  
  Wouldn’t want justice would we?
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Missing that again…. THE PIRATE BAY WAS LEGAL WHEN THOSE PEOPLE WERE RUNNING IT. THE CONVICTION IS DUE TO BE OVERTURNED DUE TO JUDGE CONFLICTS! (sing this with me in 300 part harmony)
- Violated0
  
  It would hurt him none to appeal against the length of his sentence in light of his cooperation when they sure can’t give him worse. Also since this is a non-violent crime he should aim to get an early release and home curfew while tagged.
  
  Still he was clearly selling pirated and counterfeit products and that we should condemn when only non-profit sharing should be lawful. His conviction was correct and only the punishment was extreme. In some places you can do rape or murder and get less years.
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Your great Idol “Anon” advocates lifetime in prison. You surprise me.
- When
  
  Liking your own comments again. You trolls are real clown shoes and always good for a laugh.
- Nejtillpirater
  
  15 years is way to low for asshole such as you.
http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

15 YEARS? I would challenge that sentence as being unconstitutionally harsh, seeing as how again…. MURDERERS can be out after only 5 years.
- Guest
  
  Just after 5 years? Are you really sure? I can’t believe that.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Yep, I am very sure about that, the FBI released statistics that proved that.
- Guest
  
  I’m sure once murders start infringing on the bottomline of the entertainment industry, they will get at least 15 years too.
- StevO
  
  I agree. This is a petty crime. I would say the RIAA had a lot to do with this.
Just Curious

Sounds like he was running a big time counterfeit operation. If so, he is getting just what he deserves.
- Andrew me
  
  I agree he should be punished for selling but in fact there are so many big businesses that have been caught using others material to make a profit i think it should be a warning or suspended sentence not a jail term.
  As someone above said it is probably a black person as a white person in that state would be warned and sent on his way.
politux

Mississippi – 49th in teachers pay and #1 in gonorrhea!
Who

“At this point we should mention that 17 years ago King was sentenced to five years for assaulting a police officer and in 2003 he did serve a year under house arrest for CD piracy. Nevertheless, 15 years seems like a sentence one might associate with particularly serious violent crime, not the copying of digital media”

something tells me that this SHIT was a complete set up. he did time for this in the past and did it again? so after this 15 years he will be let out just to do it again for what 30+ years?

almost sounds like he was well paid and didn’t care to do jail time again, other wise Y plead guilty and serve again?
Non-Story

This is not filesharing, this is straight counterfeit and fraud. apples and oranges.
- Fantastic
  
  exactly but they won’t make it appear so and will equate the two to be equal.
Midas

Celebrate evil.
Who

I just noted this, they didn’t mention a FINE. file sharing ALWAYS has a fine. so you sell copy’s and don’t get fined with jail time, but you don’t profit off P2P sharing and you DO get fined and jail time. how does this make any sense?
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Three words: “Habitual Offender Law”.
  
  On his third time going down different penalties apply. That, and I believe this case was run as a criminal trial, not a civil one.
  
  Hence jail instead of fine.
Just Curious

Mississippi is not The United States, it is Mississippi. Please remember, we are talking about a state where the majority of residents cannot spell the word Mississippi.
- UraPhake
  
  Just Curious — I am glad that you made that distinction.
  
  I remember when Texas would put someone away for 15 years or longer for having a joint (Oklahoma was nearly as bad). Other States treated the same thing as little more than a traffic infraction.
  
  Here in Colorado, we just passed a referendum legalizing small amounts of weed for anyone over the age of 21. It’s still against Federal law, but the fight has to start somewhere. I believe two other States have done the same.
  
  If piracy (the sharing kind) was treated in the same manner…well, we can only hope that it will someday.
marxmarv

The crime here is taking the share of money away from the elites. That’ll get you a long vacation, whatever rules they have to invent or break to make it happen.
Goosmoo

My cousin was killed by a drunk driver. The woman who killed him only got a couple of years. It’s amazing that you can sell copied files and get more time than you would get if you killed someone.
- Some stuff
  
  last time it was your aunt , now is your cousin?
  stop the bull
  - Goosmoo
    
    Where did I ever say it was my aunt? I’ve never had any relatives killed by a drunk driver. My cousin had pulled off to the side of the road in Florida to change a tire. He was there for a wedding. A drunk woman crossed a few lanes of traffic and ran over him.
    
    So shut your hole.
    - Goosmoo
      
      ehh, any OTHER relatives killed by a drunk driver, I mean.
      
      And yes please do show me a post saying that I said it was my aunt, because my family will be shocked to hear the news, as will I.
Furious Canadian

LOL TO USA!!!
Wyatt Mann

>Patrick Lashun King
>Mississippi
Proof that all blacks do is steal
- Goosmoo
  
  You are an example of why Darwinism doesn’t always work. I hope you don’t ever reproduce.
  - Ophelia Millais
    
    In defense of Darwin, the post was basically mate repellent. Or at least, it reduced the pool of candidates quite a bit.
    - Guest
      
      can you talk normal?
      thank you
JOHN MAIDEN

15 years? They don’t want their coke snorting, child molesting cronies who got jailed to feel lonely I guess.
- Goosmoo
  
  If someone molests a child or gets arrested for drugs, they usually get less than 15 years…. a lot less.
  - Guest
    
    That’s simply not true. Please stop to spread retarded lies. Everyone with a human brain knows how the United States is treating especially the people who dare to touch minors in a special way. 100 – 1000 years do sound more realistic.
    - Goosmoo
      
      Erm, it simply IS true. It’s called statistics. Read them.
      
      The average sentence given to the 4,300 child molesters was approximately seven years, with three of seven years typically being served. http://childprotection.lifetips.com/cat/63573/sex-offender-statistics/index.html
      
      Median sentence for CP crimes: 7 years. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/29/debate-rages-over-severity-child-porn-sentences/
      
      I’d be very interested in seeing what statistics you are referring to when you mention “100-1000″ years. Do you have a link to a page with stats? Sure the big media cases like Sandusky get more time because the judge is under pressure, but the average case isn’t anywhere near that.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Guest, those extreme things are mainly for people with HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of different charges lumped on AND are poor or middle class so they don’t have the money to challenge the convictions/arrests/charges.
      
      Sandusky’s situation is….. rare, to be mild about it.
      
      I’ll say again: Unless there is some physical force involved, I personally feel that adult/child sex should be LEGAL.
      If there is physical force and it can be proven? Nail the suckers to the wall and put them in prison.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      Sadly, Goosmoo has a point, looking at the statistics. It appears molesting children is, in fact, considerably less vile crime in Mississippi than selling bootleg CD’s.
    - Guest
      
      @Goosmoo
      
      Most of those statistics are useless crap and the link to fox news you just posted indicates that you are one of those mass media fanboys that are not able to think in an objective way.
      
      Wait a minute you wrote about “child molesters” and the first link points to a statistic that is about a sex offender list. Didn’t you know that even urinating can bring you in most states on that list?
      
      I bet most of the data of the cases they used for their calculations weren’t actually about rape but cases involving digital cameras and those convicted people aren’t rapists, but I think your “fox news” brain ist able to tell the difference.
      
      Of course. The average seven years you are refering to is way to high for such type of “crime”… wait – stop. This isn’t a law board and to much off-topic. I beter shut up from now on – also: You must be a troll.
Dondilly

There was me thinking p2p had all but killed off piracy for profit.

It is the one form of piracy I object to, especially if sold asx counterfeit goods, i.e if the intent is to hoodwink the public, passing the item off as a licensed copy.

If the MAFIAA are celebrating, maybe they should stump up the trial cost, +$1000 a week for this guy’s accomodation over the next 15 years and if married, the welfare bill to support his kids while he is in prison rather than leaving the tax payer to pick up the tab.

In the UK, a case like this, a trader selling bootlegs is dealt with by trading standards (a local gov dept) usually by way of a fine issued by a magistrate. Here, 15 years is considered a life sentence given to murders and depending on the case could be out on license in half that time.

The MAFIAA should be made to pay the true cost of politicians doing their bidding. They true cost goes way beyond lobbying costs, campaign donations and all out bribes. I see no reason they should be subsidised by the tax payer.
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Well, here’s the thing. People who are afraid of computers, don’t know about computers, or who may in fact be pro-copyright talibans of the rankest kind will still cheerfully go out and line the pockets of a counterfeit vendor with good cash, thinking “What a bargain”.
  
  Bear in mind we live in P.T. Barnum’s world where a sucker is born every minute.
http://www.facebook.com/Jacknsue Jack Williams

The not so great state of mississippi, I left home(mississippi) when I was 17 and never look back, and damn glad I did!!!
- ThumbsUpThumbsDown
  
  The problem is that modern corporate monopolists are using the Copyright Laws to bring Mississippi to a neighborhood near you…..
- MrWhite
  
  Mississippi?
  
  Oh ya! Is it not the place where they have these retards and their ridiculous white pointy hats?
  
  How do they call themselves again?. . .
  
  Oh Yes! The.Cou Cou klan!
Herp

Well i can’t say i support him being jailed for fifteen years but it’s totally wrong to take someone elses work and sell it for profit. I only support free pirating
NewClear

Jail sentences of 15 years and fines of $150,000 are legal penalties that were designed for large scale, criminal piracy. Using them to go after 1 man who sold 5 movies and 1 cd should be treated as cruel and unusual punishment.
- ThumbsUpThumbsDown
  
  Not in Mississippi. American Blacks found their Civil Rights primarily by getting the fuck out of places like Mississippi.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Sweet Home Chicago.
- mad mike
  
  He had 10,500 copies in his possession, I’d call that a massive enough scale to warrant the penalty.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    Really?
    
    In the country where I live, “fair use” enables me to legally hand over any amount of copies of anything to any one – friends, family, colleagues, random strangers i met in the pub…
    
    Although selling such copies would be a bad thing, there is no jurisdiction under which making copies – irrespective of how many – would warrant 15 years in jail.
    
    Especially in a state where the term “aggravated assault” will net you between 1 and 20 years.
Andrew me

Not that i do that, i normally spend time with a person explaining copyright laws and DRM then telling them not to abuse it by selling content.

Yes i teach them to download using utorrent and a proxy but other than that i always tell people to rather just copy files to usb drives if they want to give them to someone.A 4gb usb drive is under $4 now so it does not cost much, and you can always delete data and copy newer stuff across.

The more we encourage sharing of content the more people will join the ranks of the pirates, and eventually it will get to a situation where the monopolists cannot win, well they cannot win now, but having 80% of the population sharing would encourage laws to change in the right direction, not laws changing to make 80% of the population criminals.I am sure people would have a lot to say at voting time if they were labeled criminals for sharing with like minded people.

Luckily society understand about how Hollywood works and how greedy they have become, with cases like this it just proves that point more and more, for every case like this there are thousands and thousands that go unpunished, it is just bad luck to get caught these days.

Share and Share some more and encourage others to share, that is how we beat them.
- mad mike
  
  And then there would be no financial gain in movies or music and we would have no more of either. So beat them all you want, at the end of the day it’s a business that pays a lot of people, and by choking off profits you end up watching Transformers 25 and listening to the next iteration of Beiber because that’s proven moneymaking formulas at work. I
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    Right right. You mean the same way every emerging technology has choked off obsolete industries and made way for new ones?
    
    Go cry among the horse coach drivers, the blacksmiths, the glassblower’s guild and the thousands of other jobs which were altered or abolished by technology.
    
    After which you can explain how come 99% of the immortal classics in art, music and literature still date from times when “copyright” didn’t even exist.
    
    Apparently according to you, we would never even have invented cave painting. I think I must inform you at this point that you are either stupid, deluded, or deliberately trolling…
http://www.facebook.com/grahambaster Graham Baster

I would suggest removing him from custody and setting him up with a new identity elsewhere.
Yogurtpop4

while i disagree with the number of years associated with the crime, i don’t agree with him making money off of it and it’s his own damned fault
http://profile.yahoo.com/ZEL3X5FL6TGP3EYXRKDGMR3EW4 BigB

its because he was black. this is the the highest sentence ive seen.
- ScrewEwe2
  
  He was black. OK, now it makes sense. Dadgummit, BWBB (Breathing While Being Black) is a serious offense over yonder in Mississippi.
Randy_Lahey

A music CD? What was it, the 1998 version of the Lion King soundtrack? Give me a break, rapists and child molesters get a lighter sentence.
73

i would have given him a $10 fine. but even that is excessive.
Bubanee

Fuck that, what’s next… 20years for shop lifting.
If they follow suit… millions of people will be locked up and that alone will send the ecomony broke since it cost an arm and leg (or two lol) to house a prisoner…
.
15 fucking years, i can’t get my head around that.. oh my fucking god!…
- mad mike
  
  Shoplifting 10,500 times. In some countries by strike three you no longer have two hands.
  - Chronoss2008
    
    and ya think 15 years you need hands other then masterbating
    you might as well kill the kid
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    Your opinion that Sharia law as practiced by fundamentalist muslim nations is a good example is duly noted.
    
    I’m curious. If that is your point, what do you think about the Canadian Record industry Association ripping 300,000 songs off artists for a period of 20 years and selling them on a massive scale while steadfastly refusing to pay the artists?
    
    If we apply your reasons, every CEO of the RIAA needs to have their hands lopped off, sewn back on, then amputated again a few times over.
- ScrewEwe2
  
  Probably handing out 5 year sentences for jaywalking in Mississippi. Probably a 10 year sentence for not going to Church on Sunday.
- JimboJones
  
  Approximately 2.2 Million adults are already incarcerated in the USA. Given the potential adult working population (18-65 years old) is around 196 Million, that’s already a MASSIVE percentage.
  
  Don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely with you. And unfortunately, their incarceration rate will continue to climb, therefore having a increasing impact economically. All of this despite an apparently declining crime rate.
  
  You might find this interesting:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
  
  Take special note of Russia, Iran, UK, and China
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Bob Smith

A 15 year sentence implies that “piracy is rape” or “piracy is 2nd degree murder” or something of that nature.

His two previous arrests plus finding weapons and 10,000+ disks sure sounds like there’s more to the story — but that doesn’t make it right. If the guy is the kingpin of some large-scale counterfeiting operation, they need to bust him for *that*. I don’t think you can get 15 years for selling 6 lbs of *heroin* under US Federal law (ref: Controlled Substances Act PL 91-513, 1970).

Also — sad to say, his being black and on the wrong side of the law in Mississippi probably doesn’t help, either.
- Chronoss2008
  
  i could rape your wife and daughter and get maybe only 3-5 years
wtfRIAA

“Piracy may not technically be theft, but the signs are that judges in the United States believe it’s a worthy equivalent – and then some.”

I think the line between piracy and theft is drawn when you start to sell your copies to the public. I actually think that is theft.

With that said, 15 year is ridiculous sentence for this type of crime. I hope he does infact appeal this verdict.
- ThumbsUpThumbsDown
  
  Perhaps this Judge does indeed represent the future of America.
  
  There are places on this planet where your average resident has no teeth; and, less education; the highest cultural pastime is moonshine; and, social relationships are tribal, meaning hopelessly hillbilly; and, the local peasantry works till it dies.
  
  Mississippi qualifies.
  
  There, the only direction is Backward; away from any future implying broadly distributed rights or opportunity. There, the Civil War was fought twice in defense of a national Plantation State of Mind: Once against the northern Industrial States; and, the second time, in The Civil Rights Movement, against common decency itself.
  
  Today, the modern war for Civil rights is being fought against Corporate efforts to entrench for themselves the benefits of a new Corporate Plantation throughout America.
  
  This judge speaks for the great Mississippi plantation traditions; which are today “born again” within the largest and most powerful American Corporate boardrooms.
  
  We can only hope that history passes him by as completely as it has passed the “great” state of Mississippi.
  - Chronoss2008
    
    people are gonna stop buying and stop going to movies if this keeps up and htey can go all crazy and have zero to show for it
- mad mike
  
  Idk man, 10,500 copies is a lot of potential cash. How many years would you get for stealing a $50,000 automobile? And that’s if he was selling them dirt cheap. At new prices it’s be more like $250,0000, that’s pretty serious.
  - Chronoss2008
    
    you get what is called theft over , a max of about 2 years….canada
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    There’s a perfectly good example of what law should be used and compared here.
    
    Fraud.
    
    That said, I think you are dreaming when you’re talking profits. If someone manages to sell obviously counterfeited CD’s of old music at what…1$ a piece? Then he’s made 10k bucks minus cogs. I concur that he should owe a proper cut of what he made to the artists who made the music, but 15 years?
    
    If he were a media corporation doing exactly the same but in the scale of a hundred million units, he’d be walking away from this one.
RIAAtarded

wow…. just wow… i’ve never seen anything that defines miscarriage of justice better then this. 5 DVDs and 1 CD, so on a good day 100$ retail and for that it warrants a 15 year sentence. Had he stolen them it is a single count of petty theft and chances are he’d get no time at all but because he burnt them it adds up to almost 2 decades dealing within the penal system. Had he shot the guy dead he could have got less time. Run him down in a car less then that, rape him, beat him bad enough he had permanent injury and still less time. What exactly am I suppose to take away from this? That the US holds copyright higher the murder? I think it is about time you yanks stand up and do something about this rather then figuring way around it with VPNs and servers and dealing with it.
Chronoss2008

so you know taxpayers that costs taxpayers 1.5 million at rate of about 100,000 per year for each convict

nice eh….go riaa bankrupting the usa one convicted pirate at a time.
No

Lets face facts, most if not all of us share or download pirated stuff. Its what the poor have to do, we arnt actually taking anything away from the artist since we would not have paid for it in the first place, but reselling something that u downloaded is the big nono. Heck even when i was a kid at school and burned cds for mates, id only charge for the blank cd itself. This is what seperates us.ndont sell what isnt yours, just share
- Bloaxor
  
  We all agree on this, but 15 years for what could’ve been fair and square with a 100-200$ bill is way, way – way the everloving god damn flying fuck too much.
  - Bloaxor
    
    We can all agree*
    
    lrn2terms bloax
Chronoss2008

and in canada i could beat the shit out of you break your arms and legs leaving you alive , steal your car smash it to bits rob a bank with a gun and if caught on all this likely get 15 years in jail….

MAYBE…..minus the bank part your lucky to get 3-4

SO thats right everyone the message is dont sell pirated goods beat them up and take them from stores….
then your lookin at maybe a year in jail
haha
if you get caught
- Guest
  
  Excellent point, rob stores then sell the “legit” merchandise, you would probably get like 1-3 years and some community service work.
  - Chronoss2008
    
    yup i agree OR we go the other way and have 100000 people turn themselves in and tell the judge to give us all the same sentence cause he’s a cocksucking douche bag riaa mpaa dick licker
    
    1.5 million times 100,000 = 150 billion cost to tax payers MUHAHA
    lets bankrupt the system folks
    that will work too and they are doing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chronoss2008

ENJOY OBAMA
this is now hollywood unleashed….
Adam

WTF?! 15 years is crazy for selling a few pirated DVDs. That’s the time you get for murder here in Sweden… (in extreme cases, lots of murderers get released after only 8-10 years)
- Chronoss2008
  
  manslaughter in canada is 7-10
  armed robbery 5-10
  robbery 1 year
  assualt causing bodily harm 1-3 years
  second degree murder 15+ years
  
  so they are saying we should start commiting as i said
  a robbery and steal legite cdrs and dvdrs and resell the legite cdrs/dvdrs…..
  
  the net result is at most 3 years prison vs sharing and taking 15 years….hahahahahaha
  that judge is gonna get some serious tlaking too by a few as the word gets round to start stealing all the stuff and retailers get nervous the ruling sets.
Randy_Lahey

Here’s your ‘American Justice’ – A man who used to work as a higher up for ICE/DHS was caught trafficking in child pornography and he only got 5 years:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/exice-chief-in-fla-gets-p_n_2116150.html
Please!!!.

Please, thank god I live in the UK!. That really seems major harsh to me, you don’t even get that for murder!. Wow!!!.
Guest

What a shame….
I support anyone who makes money of movies/music, aslong as its not the mpaa/riaa.

MPAA/RIAA: GO DIE ALREADY!!!!
Lame

I’d love to know the movies and CD he sold. Better be something good lol
MrPirate

Mississippi…Arrrrrrgh!
ZAndooo

And I give a huge Middle Finger Salute to the RIAA!
Privacy-Guyz.tk
- JordanKratz
  
  FUCK YOU MAFIAA !
  You Fucking puke piece of shits.15 Years for selling some discs.
  You are frakkin out of your mind.
  We need a War against the MAFIAA so we can give them payback.
  15 Years is so bad of a Sentence for what this man did.
  - djnforce9
    
    15 years does sound harsh unless there were other crimes in addition to this in order to justify the sentence. Still though, I have little sympathy for those that “profit” off of other people’s hard work. Downloading for personal use is one thing and I am all for that but selling bootlegged goods is a completely different beast. What sucks is how the MAFIAA can’t seem to tell the difference and ends up calling us file-sharers thieves when we are clearly not.
    - RIAAtarded
      
      I agree there is a distinction between personal use and for profit, also feel that is a line you cross and it becomes you get what you deserve as you don’t own it to sell it. That being said however this is a 15 year sentence for a handful of burnt disks. 3 years per piece of media and what are the actual losses? 100$? I hope this guy appeals this judge has business sitting on the bench handing down decisions like this.
  - Chronoss2008
    
    enjoy obama and hollywood running your nation for 4 years
    by time they are done your all toast
  - Momascumquot
    
    I think he got off lightly-if I was sentencing him I would of either give him the chair or made him sit in a room with you for 1 hour.
    After 1 hour with you he would be begging for the chair lol
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Lochray69

15 years for piracy..this is why the unites states prisons are ao fucked up..are tax dollars are going towards 15 years of a petty crime?..what a fucked up system we have..just give him a big fine and call it good..give hime parol pr probation for like 20 years anf call it good..but 15 years for a fucking petty crime, come on..lol..can someone agree with me?
- Chronoss2008
  
  works out to almost 1.5 million tax dollars
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Richpeoplearetrash

I’d say we should give Mississippi to Mexico, but they’d probably refuse to take it off our hands. You notice this type of shit always happens in some broke backwards state where the Governor and associated officials will get down on their knees and debase themselves for the chance to smell that Hollywood money, more which gets spent making a third Transformers movie than Mississippi probably spends on it’s schools in any given year.
Foff

That judge is stupid ass. We fill up jails and prisons for people that have a small amount of drugs on them now we are going to fill them up with people committing copyright offenses. Why do these get tough fuck nut judges think there is an unlimited budget for taking care of people in prison. Fucking stupid. But worse who the fuck buys a pirated movies? In this world everyone ought to just download it for free.
- Chronoss2008
  
  15 years = 1.5 million bucks roughly
  
  enjoy needing WAYYYYY HIGHER TAXES….
  you could just take tax dollars and make free movies and tv at this rate
Team

So soon it will be life time or death sentence what next
Jon7272

15 years a joke but selling copied movies is a no no .us sharers do not like people making money of copying
mad mike

10,500 copies found in his home. So what if he plead guilty to selling 6 items, he was obviously selling on a massive scale. This isn’t your run of the mill person downloading a copy of a CD or DVD for personal use, this was exactly what copyright laws were written to prevent and prosecute, the mass distribution of material that a person has no rights to capitalize on.
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  And even so, 15 years is quite over the top.
  
  It’s what you would have expected were he to have committed aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
- Momascumquot
  
  spot on. hooray for you. I’m a vicars daughter.
http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay

By the time he gets out we’ll all be ‘bumping’ our cell phones together for 5 seconds to share a perfect HD movie.
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Unlikely, given the limitations of electromagnetic transmission.
  
  However, already today I’d advise looking up “frostwire” app for android which allows ad-hoc bluetooth filesharing networks.
  - http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay
    
    What limitation? And why does a bump have to be electromagnetic? Maybe it will be optical.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      There are limits to how much information you can compress and transmit. The shorter the wavelength the more information the transmission can carry – but the more power it consumes and the shorter the range. Transmitting 4,7 GB’s worth of a .iso rip in 5 seconds over the air would most likely mean your phone could be capable of frying people. Compounded by the antenna of the phone being a whopping 6 inches wide at most.
      
      And optical means coherent, meaning you’d need to actually aim.
      
      However, having ad-hoc bluetooth mesh networks generated by citizens in a train wagon or a cafeteria capable of exchanging massive amounts of information over time is not at all infeasible. Similarly, a near future where basic repeaters are a dime a dozen and can be set up everywhere is not at all improbable.
    - http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay
      
      For a laser, at short/ moderate distances, you wouldn’t have to necessarily ‘aim’ the device. You would just have to ‘point’ it in the general direction and the device could lock on automatically. Actually, the ‘bump’ as we know it today will be so obsolete we’ll laugh at it one day. “Back in the day we had to actually touch our devices together,” we’ll say. :)
Gibber

Thank GOD I know this tactic (comment derailing), because I used it before (I worked at a Public Image / Rep Management company years ago). Morons replying to that paid troll are just little more than puppets. BTW, if this comment somehow makes you angry for being so naive, please vent by commenting the ACTUAL issue at hand.
allanontb

Why don’t they just chop off his hands. I mean while we’re going back to the dark ages we might as well adopt some of the old customs.
Chronoss2008

popups are a sign a site is gay btw
Chronoss2008

btw here is an example how stupid a ruling this is….

lets say instead afines they start handing out sentances like this for 6 items

ok
so you end up with a six strikes law that in the end puts say 200,000 pirates into a prison
thats 200,000 times 100,000 per year incarceration
cost to taxpayer that is….
20 billion per year

NOW lets say instead of wasting 20 billion a year
you gave jj abrams and paramount 1 billion ot make 3 star trek movies
you seeing the idea here that makes far more sense?
ya details and working out how to do it is a chore but its gonna end up far cheaper and if you look at your war on drugs as a complete waste as it is……you’d be out of issues in the usa ina decade ….but hey

im not american and im laughing at you all now….
- FilthyHippy
  
  I’m laughing at me too; but then again i like to watch my man boobs jiggle … hey, I’m also wearing man boob pasties. Watch while i make them spin!
downunder

and the real losers are the USA tax payers LOL

15 x 100K per year to house a inmate

and they call it victory… fools

at least he dont have to pay rent food etc for 15 years

i guess they tthnk its sending a message.. but then he was selling it not just sharing and downloading tv shows for self pleasure
so really he was a silly boy
Peter Owens

I thought TPB was unstoppable now it’s in the cloud! Why is it offline?
- ScrewEwe2
  
  I can’t connect either. Tried Google Chrome with MAFIAA Fire, IE9, Firefox, Opera, Safari and some of the PB Proxies from the USA and site is down for all attempts???
Andrew Lee

This is a interesting case for sure because you have on one hand someone who is selling and using piracy for profit. Then to have a majority of the pirates who are not doing it for personal gain.
The two cannot be put in the same category at all without causing some serious issues. The 15 years only makes me think this guy has a very checkered past.
Piracy for profit is one thing that pisses me off it’s completely different from sharing. This guy needed to be taught a lesson BUT NOT A 15 YEAR LESSON… I don’t care what he’s done in the past 15 years for this is just way too much.
Tsunku

i think it’s right n proper that he got caught and will serve time. selling the stuff is just wrong, giving it away is ok tho.
guest

well i guess this case proves that if you are going to sell an illegal copy of music or movie then you should also rape and kill the person buying it. Then only plead guilty to the rape and murder and get less time in jail.
Dd

Holy JC…4 5 movies & 1 cd?????wtf man?
15 years???
really??
The_Strawbear

Sharing is caring, profiting is not.

Every person making money off sharing does the cause much harm.
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Anonymous

so out of curiosity, what crimes in the US constitute a more serious sentence? is it any wonder that the public despise the entertainment industries more and more, especially when they gloat over locking someone up for this length of time for copying 6 disks of data? no way on Earth can that be called ‘justice’ by any stretch of the imagination!

also curious if all public servants in the US with the name Lamar work for the entertainment industries as a side line?
Celeste Childers

Most of you are pretty fuckin retarded. bye now losers.
- Facefuck
  
  Yeah you have a good day, sir. -.- We won’t miss you for sure. Also did you miss the brony comments section in another tab or why are you commenting like a retard with a meaningless waste of space of a sentence on here? Farewell, cunt!
1hhh1

Counterfeits for profit’s not on,don’t know about you all but here in Paris you can see the sellers of the latest movies,music ect at any local market,infact a year or so ago I put my hand on ones shoulder and said”police”he just ran like hell and left all behind.
- Guest
  
  awesome!
- U-95
  
  In Spain too; it’s not uncommon to see them selling on the Metro (Madrid subway) or in the street, In fact, they use beddings with ropes where they deploy their stuff, so if the police appears it’s easy for them to get their stuff and escape.
  
  On the subject of the news: it’s excessive for just that, but one thing is file sharing just for altruism and other quite different is to take advantage of that for profit. Same for those people who hangs a file that, in order to be unlocked or getting the password, forces you to pay,
FuzzyDuck

Lemme guess, does Patrick Lashun King have the wrong skin color?
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Only if you happen to be a nice white good-ol’-boy in Mississippi. In which case he is a man of an ethnicity which the locals spell with two “g”‘s.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    I hate words with two “g”‘s. Words with two “t’s are much better.
    
    Titties!
  - FuzzyDuck
    
    That would help explain why the sentence was so high in Mississippi.
Boill

Thank FSM i dont live in the USA
Maninthemoon99

If you can get 15 years for selling 5 movies and 1 CD you should get at least two life sentences for compressing away the dynamics of earlier released records ( at 50% of remasters do that ) without informing and releasing the original version seperately . Could be called ” Corrupting Copyrighted Material ” or something that way.

As for the question about the being or non-being of God … the fact is that there is only one thing we can be absolutely sure of , and that is that we exist and experience something the rest is due to perception , and for all we know we could be so insane that we don’t even realize we are insane …. etc…etc
townie2

that’s insane! is he a bigger threat to society than a murder, rapist, child molester, who by the way will probably be released from prison before him. this isn’t criminal law, this is corporate law.
- ane92
  
  apples and oranges really…. it’s not so much the law he broke but it’s the scale that he did it on and the repeated offenses.
  
  if you punch a guy in a bar fight you could get a small sentence…if you do it on a massive scale with multiple convictions, you can get LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.
  
  this guy already had multiple convictions and not only chose to continue breaking the law but he chose to do it on probably the largest scale you can.
  
  I live in China and seeing large dvd stores with nothing but counterfeit dvds is common place, this guy was larger than even them though.
  
  But yes….someone with a history of violence, who’s owning guns and continues to break the law…can be seen as a threat in many peoples eyes. I agree he’s not as bad as a murderer or child molestor but he’s shown know desire to live a honest legal life…at some point you gotta teach him a harsh lesson cause he’s proven he isn’t gonna change his ways.
  
  With the business skills he had and the desire to sell counterfeit items as the real thing for a huge profit, he could have chosen to move to a country that has less strict laws and allows that sort of thing for the most part….instead he chose to do it in a southern state with a history of harsh laws. The fault is on him and him only
- Momascumquot
  
  he got off with a light sentence.
Asashii

we dont play that repeat offender shite here in the south, everyone must share for share sake, zero profit or pay when you get caught, easy as 1-2-3!
Guest

justice is served if i ever read it.

It’s one thing to pirate, it’s another thing to make money from it.
Arielle Smith

“While I understand every person has their bias, this article has more than its fair share. First, the article tends to focus more on the five movies and one CD that Mr. King was caught selling. In that context, it seems positively absurd that someone would receive over a year for each piece of stolen property the man tried to sell. However, embedded later in the article, we hear that Mr. King had in his possession 10,500 pirated CDs. We also discover that this is not his first run in with the law, either generally or specifically related to piracy issues. Mr. King has a record of trouble with the police and was also sentenced to a one year house arrest period for pirating CDs. He clearly did not learn his lesson from that incident and continued to pursue activities he knew to be illegal and punishable by jail time. Mr. King definitively proves the Judge and the Prosecutor’s point that those who commit IP theft are frequently serial criminals.”
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  So possession with intent to sell of ten thousand copies of media, harming no one, is more grievous than domestic abuse in your eyes, Arielle Smith?
  
  That is good to know, especially after you mentioned the word “bias”.
  
  Indeed, your entire argument becomes unhinged after trying to present the comparison.
Jan Boeche

Dutch Guest wrote:

“I feel that if you download something for personal use, or to share it with others (family, close friends) that that should be fine.”

But public file sharing is not limited to a closed circle. So you are by negative implication arguing that public file sharing – even non-commercial transactions of files over public trackers should be illegal.

On whose side are you? If you aren’t for categorical legalization of all public non-commercial file sharing, some wonders what you are doing here on a site which userbase advocates that non-commercial sharing regardless of scale ought to be legal.
Guest4

> 15 years is way too high for this crime
In fact, it’s crime to jail someone for 15 years due to lame bytes. The only problem is that laws are lobbied by high-profile MAFIAA, unfortunately.
ane92

15 years is harsh no doubt, but it’s clear this guy has never had a desire to follow laws. He’s a career criminal with a history of violence and in posession of firearms. Imagine if this guy was involved in a random shooting, people would be outraged that someone with an assault charge had weapons…luckily that never happened. but it shows he has a dangerous history/possible mentality.

It’s not so much the crime he did that drew this sentence, but the scale at which he did it. He ran a well size/highly profitable business on lies/false advertisements/and illegal activities. He wasn’t some random street corner bootleger to say the least.

Throughout his life he’s showed no sign of following the law and there’s no indicition he would suddenly be a constructive law abiding citizen if he was simply given a slap on the wrist, or that he ever will.

15 years is harsh but when you continue to get caught breaking laws over and over you are asking to have the book thrown at you.

What about all the mom and pop shops over the years who have gone out of business selling legal cds/dvds in retail stores….then this guy comes along and opens a store selling fake products at a price you cant compete with and he advertises it as the real thing….this guy is no saint.

With the size and scope of his business it’s clear he had some basic business skills at the least. he could have chosen to open a legal business. or hell if you really want to sell counterfeit products as the real thing he could have moved to a place where this thing is allowed….China for example (I currently live in China). Yet he chose to run this business already having multiple felony convictions and in a southern state known to have harsh penalities.
ane92

let me ask you this….if a man with a history of assault had weapons and continued run-ins with the law and was running an illegal business on about as large as a scale as possible……would you want him living next to your wife/children/family?

Not saying this guy was a safety risk…but he’s not a good guy at the very least.

15 years is harsh but it’s obvious this guy isn’t gonna be living an honest lifestyle anytime soon and with his past history of violence it is something to take into consideration.

If anything he could have chosen to run this illegal operation in a country with less strict laws. I see counterfeit dvd stores all over China…..this guy chose to do it in a state with a history of harsh sentences. Should I feel sorry that he chose to continue to flaunt the law when he had other options and refuse to take them ? No I shouldn’t/don’t..
- Facefuck
  
  I dunno about you guys but I for one have met people with far worse crime records. In good ol’ Germany there are lots of sex offenders with MULTIPLE felonies (like 70 harassments or multiple child abuse of his own children, the children of his lover and his second wife over DECADES <- THAT is SICK). Society thinks we can treat them. You know those people that think you can PRAY to become hetero or give yourself to Jesus, Alah, Buddha, wtf-ever and turn your live around. These bitches are the ones that let this shit happen constantly. We all know that most of the older generation of sex offenders are addicted to child pr0n. We know they are unlikely to change till they die. Yet. We feed them, put them in a warm cell, wait a few years till they get bored and release em on parole. Next thing such a wacko does is molest the children of his next girlfriend or gets back with his EX (what a stupid cunt btw). Another example: HONOR KILLINGS. A young beautiful girl gets killed by one of her own family members. What do we charge these retards with? Some years behind bars and then parole. Even when we know it is a hate crime, absolutely unacceptable in our society and it was aimed at KILLING the victim from the beginning. And if they do it again? Well another run in the prison system and another victim when he gets out.
  
  In the meantime the civilised world is spending billions incarcerating non violent offenders and protecting business interests (wow! is that what democracy stands for?) while at the same time letting the sickos walk around freely with nothing to lose.
  
  Yeah this world is a TRIP!
  
  BTW: I don't like how people smack this dude just by arguing that he is a repeat offender and tried to make a profit of pirated media. Yes this was amateur as hell and yes he probably deserves a bigger sentence than last time but COME ON! 15 years? Are you fkin serious? He did not kill anybody and every fkin nutcase in the south owns guns. Come on. Is owning a gun a crime now? Article offers not enough info on what was really going on. So I guess cracker judge was biased much?
Borharris1

think i’ll go kill someone …. won’t get 15 years, … talk bout screwed up priorities, but what’s the surprise, i’d get more time for robbing a bank then i would killing someone …
Guest

He was not sentenced for being a danger to society or being a bad person. He was convicted and sentenced for a specific crime. Are you really saying that tacking a harsher sentence onto a petty crime is just, because the criminal was a bad person or might do something bad in the future.

If the state can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you have done something, you are not guilty in the eyes of the law.
I know I know, the Supreme Court has held, and in error, that sentence enhancement for prior conduct not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, is constitutional but the rest of the western world i.e Europe and Canada would never accept such travesty of justice.

Some of the arguments in defense of disproportionate sentencing are really worthy of a police state.

If I park my car overtime, I should according to some get life imprisonment, because I am a habitual danger to society. Only Soviet and Nazi justice sought to condemn people for social malfeseance.

And owning guns is not necessarily illegal – even for felons. In some states, you may get your gun rights restored.

And the fact is really a red herring since illegal gun possession was not the crime of which he was convicted.
Guest338

“Mr. King definitively proves the Judge and the Prosecutor’s point that those who commit IP theft are
frequently serial criminals.””

It is not theft but copyright infringement. And even assuming for sake of argument that copyright infringement is theft, even “theft” of IP is not universally criminal. Since “IP theft” even under the broadest definition isn’t even criminal across the board, infringers of the monopoly aren’t neither serial criminals.

Something I don’t understand is how a state may constitutionally impose criminal punishment for copyright infringement. I thought that copyright was no longer a state but federal matter.

If I understand the law, the federal copyright law now superseeds prior state copyright laws. It was a state rather than federal prosecution. Comparing the actual sentence imposed with the federal sentencing guidelines would be interesting.

And to those who claim that the punishment was not disproportionate because the defendant (1) Had prior criminal record; (2) Should have known the illegality of his action; (3) Was a bad person due to having done things for he was not even convicted, I want you to answer which punishment you’ll ever find is disproportionate.

The same “logic” is equally applicable to overtime parking, littering or any other offense within the state’s police power.

The American view on punishment is only marginally different from that prevailing paradigm in Saudi Arabia.
King definitively proves the Judge and the Prosecutor’s point that those who commit IP theft are
frequently serial criminals.””

It is not theft but copyright infringement.
Something I don’t understand is how a state may constitutionally impose criminal punishment for copyright infringement. I thought that copyright was no longer a state but federal matter.

If I understand the law, the federal copyright law now superseeds prior state copyright laws. It was a state rather than federal prosecution. Comparing the actual sentence imposed with the federal sentencing guidelines would be interesting.

And to those who claim that the punishment was not disproportionate because the defendant (1) Had prior criminal record; (2) Should have known the illegality of his action; (3) Was a bad person due to having done things for he was not even convicted, I want you to answer which punishment you’ll ever find is disproportionate.

The same “logic” is equally applicable to overtime parking, littering or any other offense within the state’s police power.

The American view on punishment is only marginally different from that prevailing paradigm in Saudi Arabia.

And people, not the sshills, remember that copyright is no human right but only a legislative monopoly. Even accepting that commercial copyright infringement is “wrong” does not necessitate the conclusion that commercial infringement is equal to theft of tangible property.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Frank-White/100002970542124 Frank White

@ DutchGuest

“And why am i a massive prick then ?
Because i feel that this guy deserved to have them throw the book at him for selling bootleg DVD’s, especially after having been caught doing it before ?
Well i guess that makes me a massive prick then.

I feel that if you download something for personal use, or to share it with others (family, close friends) that that should be fine.
What i don’t agree with is taking someone else’s work and then making a profit on that.
Making bootleg CD’s and DVD’s and selling them for god knows how much is scummy, and deserves to be punished.”

Spoken like someone who’s never spent a day in prison in his life. If you had, you’d have a much better idea of why 15 years for this “crime” is downright inhumane. It doesn’t matter how many movies he had on disc or how many he sold over the years, they charged him selling SIX pirated works, and that’s what the sentence was for. Likely if they could have charged him for more they would have, and my guess is that if they could have charged him for selling 20 or 30 titles he would probably have gotten life.

Putting aside the morality of it, do taxpayers really want to be spending $25,000 plus per year to incarcerate this guy for 15 years – well over a quarter of a million dollars! – for selling six CD’s? Now add up the costs for the million other people we’ll be paying for over the coming years as this kind of sentencing becomes commonplace. And all the while the movie and recording studio and all the other rich arseholes championing tsentences like this are enjoying historically low taxes and a thousand other “perks” from the same legislators they’re bribing to enact the kinds of laws that enable these draconian punishments.

And just wait, maybe someday it will be someone close to you, a friend or relative, who gets 15 years in prison for selling a CD. Will you be telling him or her then that they got exactly what they deserved? I hope you do, and I hope it’s upmost on his mind the day he gets out….
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZD4NGSQBUC4AL2A67BCGKHBNWE AKP666
  
  Tax Payers have to pay for his incarceration which is on average in excess of $22,000 per inmate per year, so if he’s going to do a 15 year sentence at a total cost of $330,000 USD to the tax payer, they better have a damn good reason to make that type of commitment. Peddling bootleg dvd does not seem like a reasonable excuse to throw away that kind of money.
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The Master Troll

You can always count on Torrentfreak to forget that the man is a criminal and does not even pretend to deny doing it. Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
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http://xfyrios.myopenid.com/ xFyrios

This is beyond sickening. How can they hand out 15 years for selling pirated movies? What has the law system come down to…

According to Wikipedia in New Zealand: The minimum period of imprisonment for murder is 10 years, or 17 years for serious cases.

And this guy gets 15 years for selling movies. WTF.
IPooOnUsaFace

deserved by choosing next 4 years with obama and biden.
ane92

article is a little misleading in a few ways. while the conviction was 15 years, it’s highly highly unlikely he will serve more than 2-4 years in a min security prison before being paroled. I’d be curious to see when he is eligble for parole because that’s a big part of the story no one is reporting on, in cases like this it’s usually within a few years that you can be paroled.

so on the surface 15 years sounds harsh, but in reality it’s most likely a few years in a min security prison playing ping pong and learning arts and crafts.

as for the weapons…convicted felons aren’t allowed to own weapons. so that in itself is a pretty heft felony charge, it appears those charges were dropped in exchange of a guilty plea for the counterfeiting business he ran. which is a good deal for him because a charge like that would have landed quite a bit more years in prison and would have moved you up into a more hardcore prison instead of a min security prison, also it would make your odds of being paroled a bit harder.

so on the surface it sounds horrible….in reality , he will be out in a couple of years after serving some not so hard time. and he dodged a bullet by not being charged with owning firearms with his past felony convictions and history of violence, dodged a big bullet there.
sherri

I am assuming this was a black man. I am a caucasion 48 yr old woman who lives in Oregon and can tell this is a black man who got such a harsh sentence. It is appalling and disgraceful that someone who pirated a movie gets more time than a child molester or rapist. The judge should be ashamed of himself, but I guess he knows who has all the money. This judge makes me sick. Yes it is wrong to pirate movies and music and then sell them, but when I see a movie at a theater cost 10.00 and up per person , I havent been to a movie in years. The entertainment industry already makes billions from consumers, and this man who probably made 5.00 per movie c.d. is now going to have to do 15 years in PRISON, Give me a break, and start putting the real thieves and molesters etc. in jail..
Guest1

This is sad. I came here hoping that we can mobilize as citizens of the world and stand against the DMCA, but it just ends up that we are fighting each other, while corporate thieves are collecting the dough.
- Momascumquot
  
  you are the theif toerag.
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https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket

Not a lot of sympathy for these guys. This is not sharing, this is profiteering & gives the rest of us a bad name & our enemies ammo to use against us. People who intend to sell stuff are of no use to anyone who wants the issue of personal “Piracy” taken seriously IMO.?
- AsianGhost77
  
  In my country, people “sharing” by selling pirated DVDs (music, movie, software, ebook) for very cheap price, just enough to pay a blank DVD + some cents for the works + postal.
  In almost all Internet cafes (almost all districts in every town has 3-5 Internet cafes) wide range of pirated materials are available to be copied for some cents.
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Xxx

I still believe it should only be the authors of content who could sue counterfeit stuff dealers; RIAA doesn’t own the content either;
- Laughatyourignorance
  
  Thats as much as a drug dealer in my area got for stabbing a kid to death over $20 of weed. Thats fucking ridiculous. 15 years, I hope everyone involved with that gets what comes to them… a short drop and a sudden stop.
  - Xxx
    
    I didn’t say it was the sentence he needed; I think of course it’s not; I just added that in fact, they didn’t even have a case there coz the real authors of the contents weren’t even notified;
NoNamer

The author (and many commenters) should realize that this is probably the result of the 3 strikes law (i.e. on a third “serious” offense [felony], the judge must give a minimum sentence). Mississippi is on of the 20 some-odd states that employ such a law. The first offense, assaulting a police officer was most definitely a felony, the cd piracy could be a felony (or there could be another), and this was merely the third of the three.

Really this should be an indictment of mandatory minimum sentencing, not a reflection of “piracy law,” as no judge (as virtually all judges don’t want to be overturned) would hand out this sentence.
hack1234

Focus people ! This story is not about religion or your beliefs its about a man who got 15 yrs for bullshit !!
- Momascumquot
  
  15 years for stealing and making money off other peoples hard labour. I would have given him the chair?
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Momascumquot

Can’t do the time? Then don’t do the crime….simples.
I say quite smugly being a law abiding person.
Hooray for me…hip hip hooray.
Jasin39

A woman in Florida gets drunk , drives with kids in car. She wrecks her car, because she’s drunk driving. Her kids drown. She gets two years in prison. Meanwhile, a 37 year old man sells 3 dvd movies and a music cd and gets 15 years in prison.

God, Buddah, or whatever fictional diety you believe in, Bless America. I love how corporations run everything now, including our courtrooms.
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Laapsaap

Thank God I don’t live in the USA
Anonymous

WTF does any of this religious BULLSHIT have to do with the article? Science nor religion has a good answer to that.
DestroyErase

Hey guys what’s going on h- oh shit God debates. Getting the fuck away from this trainwreck.
http://www.facebook.com/vcariello Vincent Cariello

Let’s put this in perspective you asswipes:

A guy who committed MURDER, it was an incident in New York, got only NINE YEARS. This guy gets 15 fucking years?? WTF? This guy is going to the same jail as the rapists, pedophiles and such. You think that is fair, that’s BULLSHIT.

My ex-brother in laws friend went to jail for selling movies and such, he went to a maximum security prison with rapists and everything else. He pruposely tried commiting suicide many times to get put in solitary confinement that is how BAD it is in those county jails. Music and movie pirates who are probably nerds like us go to these jails, that’s INSANITY. The RIAA is ASSBACKWARDS and these judges need to fucking learn the difference between MURDER and selling pirated movies.

Research the article(s).
Anon

When you steal, you take something from the owner & he suffers a loss.

When you copy something, it’s just a copy. The owner still has the original.

Sure, piracy = stealing, but since sharing isn’t stealing, it also isn’t piracy.
Hate The Usa

Proud To Be An American

If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.

I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

From the lakes of Minnesota,
to the hills of Tennessee.
Across the plains of Texas,
From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Houston,
and New York to L.A.
Well there’s pride in every American heart,
and its time we stand and say.

That I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

And I’m proud to be and American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

my god do you guys realise how many countries hate you
you guys need to wake up man seriously…
Johnadamz

People come here to read about the RIAA celebrating this jail sentence issue, and we have to wade through a meaningless goulash of crap and listen to a bunch of, frankly, morons debate theology and religion. Thanks for uselessly cluttering the comments section, guys.
Toing Subbu

I came here reading about piracy punishment.

The comments went from piracy, to religion, to death penalty, to geo politics to neuro linguisitics…and still going

Don’t you just love the internet?
Fight for our RIGHTS

Thank God I live in Portugal and downloading here and sharing, not selling ofc, is perfecly legal. So said the DA, so I can download day and night and know that I’m doing nothing wrong :)
Me

I saw 15 years. I saw Mississippi. I immediately knew he had to be black. I googled him, and yup, he’s black. A white guy would have gotten a slap on the wrist.
- Chaz
  
  15 years for selling counterfeit goods? There is no sense of proportionate sentencing here. murderers and violent offenders get smaller sentences.
  
  Money begets money. It doesn’t beget LOVE. Never has, never will.
  
  If it was possible to work within the system, most of the Third World would not have heard of The Beatles, nor be able to (afford) to listen to their music.
  
  But of course the moneypots would suit themselves a treat with that as to them money rules everything.
  
  But it DOESN’T rule us, as we CHOOSE to work outside of the money system. As for working within the system, the moneypots do EVERYTHING they can to reinforce their MONEY rules and ensure (look at the FBI and MegaUpload) that any attempt at genuine competition is stifled at source.
  
  Everything within the system is RICH bash the POOR – didn’t you know they’ve DESIGNED AND BUILT it that way…… Have you ever heard of the Police raiding rich people’s homes without good cause? Or how many rich people BUY off the Police/Judiciary …… A lot more than you
  think . . . .
Chaz

There is no sense of proportionate sentencing here. murderers and violent offenders get smaller sentences.

Money begets money. It doesn’t beget LOVE. Never has, never will.

If it was possible to work within the system, most of the Third World would not have heard of The Beatles, nor be able to (afford) to listen to their music.

But of course the moneypots would suit themselves a treat with that as to them money rules everything.

But it DOESN’T rule us, as we CHOOSE to work outside of the money system. As for working within the system, the moneypots do EVERYTHING they can to reinforce their MONEY rules and ensure (look at the FBI and MegaUpload) that any attempt at genuine competition is stifled at source.

Everything within the system is RICH bash the POOR – didn’t you know they’ve DESIGNED AND BUILT it that way…… Have you ever heard of the Police raiding rich people’s homes without good cause? Or how many rich people BUY off the Police/Judiciary …… A lot more than you think . . . .
torontoguy

Wow, 15 years for approx. $150 (or less) worth of merchandise.

There was a guy in my hometown who was convicted in court for sexually assaulting 3 girls (all under the age of 10) and got 8 months in jail (or 2.6 months per child). These girls had to go to counselling as well as their families. They will always have to live with what happened to them, even though they did nothing wrong and didn’t deserve it.

Tell me how 15 years for 5 movies and 1 CD is 22 times the sentence than a pedophile deserves.

Big business really does rule the courts.
Nobody

He was selling copies of music and movies, prosecuted (too harshly) and you guys are pissed? Making money off of music an movies is on a whole other level than just digital file sharing that no one makes any money from.
welp

I’d like to point out this guy was SELLING the digital copies…. that defeats the fucking purpose of file sharing and this guy kind of does deserve a punishment of some sort…. 15 years in prison seems a wee bit harsh though.
Edward Roberts

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wtf???

The USA is so corrupt it’s insane. Some KKK / corporate key-chain judges from Mississippi are sentencing people for no reason at all in order to fund and profit from private prison slave labour, and now they see an opportunity to accept kickbacks and extend their practices to the unfair sentencing of those trying to make ends meet with information sharing. It’s not like he killed someone or viciously raped a kid… but somehow 15 years is what he gets? That’s just bloody insane.

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