Comments on: Another Elitetorrents Admin Jailed for Five Months https://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Laslo /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-229834 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:32:26 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-229834 Above poster has never heard of intellectual property. Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it doesn’t belong to someone else, nor does it mean you have not stolen it. Using torrents is theft. Is that going to stop us? No! We want something for nothing, right? Just don’t delude yourself into thinking you’re not a thief.

]]> By: BitTorrent Addiction: The Thrill of the Chase | TorrentFreak /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-181357 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:07:15 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-181357 [...] has no idea that this new hobby has such high stakes. It could potentially land him in prison or cause him to end up with a massive 6-digit fine. When the novice starts to build his knowledge [...]

]]> By: Convicted BitTorrent Admin Fights for his Right to Use Linux | TorrentFreak /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-161201 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:02:03 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-161201 [...] ‘Star Wars: Episode III’ onto the internet hours before the theatrical release. Scott was later sentenced five months in prison, followed by five months of home [...]

]]> By: Man Faces Jail for Uploading Oscar Screener | TorrentFreak /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-54249 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:48:21 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-54249 [...] Previous convictions under the Family Entertainment Act include those of Scott McCausland and Grant T. Stanley. Both were sentenced to five months in prison followed by five months of home detention for their role in the operation of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker and specifically the internet distribution of a workprint copy of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, 6 hours prior to its theatrical release. [...]

]]> By: kdsde /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31238 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:15:41 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31238 and if his mother is still alive, she with million others in the society must now pay with their taxes for feeding this copyrightinfringer 3 meals a day in a prison for the next few month! Thank you judge, your mother must be proud of you that you are unable to understand that electrons are not the same as physical property and giving non physical information away is not theft!

]]> By: kdsde /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31237 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:09:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31237 to bad the mother of this judge decided to give his son milk for free without making him pay first for it.
It would have saved the world one moron if she also would have ruled; “this crying shitting baby want something (my milk)for nothing in return, nah, thats a shit deal”

]]> By: en3r0 /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31205 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:03:55 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31205 I would punch the judge in his old head..

]]> By: Yatti /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31203 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:55:20 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31203 that sucks…

]]> By: samtucky /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31060 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:21:22 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31060 the kid was from my area, and it made the papers here a few days ago. Curious enough, no one knew what the heck was going on.

]]> By: y0himba /another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31031 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:28:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/another-elitetorrents-admin-jailed-for-five-months/#comment-31031 “those engaged in online piracy of copyrighted material are not modern day Robin Hood’s, but rather common thieves motivated solely by the desire to get something for nothing.”

Bullsh*t. It’s not about theft, although it is theft. It’s about the challenge and the respect the scene provides.

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