Uploader Sentenced to One Year in Prison (Poll)

[ragincaucasian]

Kind of a mute point considering the film was always going to be a blockbuster and argurably underperformed at the box office.

did you see the movie?

 

[Straight Shooter]

Perfect, its illegal. If you read the FBI warning at the beginning of movies it says that copyright infringement is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

 

[Ulysses31]

Too much as long as bankers and journalists avoid prosecution let alone jail for doing far more damage to society

 

[Legzman]

way to harsh. Piracy is here to stay! People need to just accept it and move on.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Copyright laws need to catch the heck up to reality. They're so far behind.

I think this is an excessive punishment. Trouble is, it may now be treated as precedent. That would be pretty shitty.

He should have received a hefty fine and "probation," meaning his internet usage would be monitored for a period of time, in order to prevent subsequent uploading.

 

[loveakirayui]

blatantly shows the our ridiculous justice system. We have drunk drivers who kill people, spousal abusers, spend less than 90 days in jail not to mention the countless celebrities who are in and out in under 5 days. The judge who sentence this should be charged with a crime as well for being bought and paid by corporations.

 

[ShikokuKichiguy]

 

[Holly Snow]

I think its to long, considering people like lindsey lohan are lucky to spend more than a day in jail. Double standards?

 

[carfiguy]

Prison should be left for individuals who are a threat to the public's safety. Now that doesn't mean white collar criminals shouldn't go to prison, but in this instance I think hitting him in the pocket book along with a shit load of community service, may have been a better punishment. Maybe make him work for a film studio doing janitorial work for 5000 hours or something ridiculous like that.

 

[Rattrap]

Prison should be left for individuals who are a threat to the public's safety. Now that doesn't mean white collar criminals shouldn't go to prison, but in this instance I think hitting him in the pocket book along with a shit load of community service, may have been a better punishment. Maybe make him work for a film studio doing janitorial work for 5000 hours or something ridiculous like that.

This is something I wish would stick in people's heads; prison is not the best correction course for many of the things it's trying to be used for. Somebody commits internet piracy - as lurkingdirk suggested, a fitting punishment might be to remove/prohibit/whatever this person's internet access. Community service. Or, to throw out another unrelated example, take drunk driving (that doesn't involve hitting anybody, let's say) - I have zero tolerance for drunk drivers especially being a cyclist, but do I think jail time is appropriate? No. Take away their license. In either case, the punishment is relevant and the end goal - to keep society safer - is achieved.

And don't even get me started on throwing drug users in jail.

I just think it's important that we fill our prisons with as many non-violent offenders as possible. This will help our massive prison under-crowding problem. And if we mix enough non-violent offenders in with the shooters, armed robbers and drug dealers, they can teach their non-violent ways to the rest of the population and we will all live in a happier, more peaceful world. Right?

Exactly.

 

[ragincaucasian]

You really have to delineate between copying a movie....
1. Reproducing the packaging and selling it for market value
2. Copying the movie and selling for below market value
3. Copying the movie and distributing to friends
4. Uploading/ seeding the movie online for download
......a) hosting for webclick revenue
......b) seeding the file for p2p



There is BIG difference in all of these so treating all of them like some criminal enterprise is dumb

 

[Will E Worm]

Banksters and insider trading amongst politicians and people are worried about minor things.

 

[Rey C.]

I don't have a problem with jail time, even with some non-violent crimes. But if this was a first offense and he's going to have to actually serve most of that time, then it seems that the stature of his victim probably had something to do with the sentence. If he's a repeat offender, then fine. But otherwise, it seems kind of twisted for a guy to do a year (or even 6 months) in Federal prison, when he could have made a LOT more money as an insider trader and all he'd have to do is pay back the gains (x3) and pay a fine.

What he did was wrong - no question about that. But what is the proper punishment... especially when you consider other sentences that get handed out for (worse) white-collar crimes? :dunno:

 

[georges]

It is too much. The MPAA banned kazaa back then in late 2003 and later another form of peer to peer appeared because people are not enough rich to pay a hundreds of cds per month or pay year. What about some films that are never projected in some countries and that are not even offered on the DVD format??? I remarked this in my country the government has voted for legalized action against piracy but it hasn't prevented that the number of downloaded movies rose significantly instead of decreasing. Piracy was and will be here, price of the cinema tickets have become insane and it is also why people download or are peer to peering movies. Also the VAT is what fucks up the price on dvds, tickets and in general the cost of life. But what is more grave is the billions of €, the governments steal and the fact that the responsibles never get punished but a poor uploader does.

 

[busenbust]

too much ! fucking ridiculous ! don't the courts have better things to do !! fuck me!

 

[Briana Lee]

Perfect, its illegal. If you read the FBI warning at the beginning of movies it says that copyright infringement is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

Exactly. Why do people think that these rules only apply to other people and not themselves?! According to the sentance he could have got he got off pretty lightly I would say. And until this starts happening more often nothing will change.

There are OCMS's and ACP's on this board who are losing a lot of money because of the uploaders and subsequent downloaders of copyrighted material.

This is so true and it's killing the industry! I now have to pay people to go search out and report the content of mine that has been uploaded illegally because it's happening so often!!

People that upload premium /stolen content are scum bags plain and simple and the people that download it are just as bad. There's plenty of free porn around nowadays without having to steal peoples premium content. You wanna see it support the model(s) & pay for it. Otherwise the next time you look your favorite model might not be there anymore.

 

[tartanterrier]

Too much.I think a hefty fine would have done to be honest.

 

[Ravenholm]

"Being a Pirate is really bad ass!" - You Are A Pirate (Alestorm)

 

[Sam Fisher]

John Corzine misplaced (lost) 1.2 Billion dollars. His quote was: “I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date. I do not know which accounts are unreconciled or whether the unreconciled accounts were or were not subject to the segregation rules.”

That’s former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, talking about $1.2 billion, belonging to clients of MF Global, that simply vanished into thin air following the eighth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Think that asswipe will serve a day in prison? Pfft!

 

[vodkazvictim]

It's theft, pure and simple, and it needs to be stopped.

Actually, its just distribution of illegal content.

The theft was commited by the person that ripped it / sent it to the uploader, not necessarily the same guy since I doubt that someone living in NYC had access to the work copy itself, it was more than likely sent to him by someone else.

Try to find the root of the problem instead, the people working for the movie companies that actually do leak unreleased movies to uploaders.

And besides, this created an enormous amount of publicity for "X-Men Origins", which strangely enough didnt do to badly when it went out in the movies....

Don't try and talk sense into him. You're wasting your breath.

Too much as long as bankers and journalists avoid prosecution let alone jail for doing far more damage to society

:thumbsup:

Banksters and insider trading amongst politicians and people are worried about minor things.

:thumbsup:

It is too much. The MPAA banned kazaa back then in late 2003 and later another form of peer to peer appeared because people are not enough rich to pay a hundreds of cds per month or pay year. What about some films that are never projected in some countries and that are not even offered on the DVD format??? I remarked this in my country the government has voted for legalized action against piracy but it hasn't prevented that the number of downloaded movies rose significantly instead of decreasing. Piracy was and will be here, price of the cinema tickets have become insane and it is also why people download or are peer to peering movies. Also the VAT is what fucks up the price on dvds, tickets and in general the cost of life. But what is more grave is the billions of €, the governments steal and the fact that the responsibles never get punished but a poor uploader does.

Who are you and what have you done with Georges?

John Corzine misplaced (lost) 1.2 Billion dollars. His quote was: “I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date. I do not know which accounts are unreconciled or whether the unreconciled accounts were or were not subject to the segregation rules.”

That’s former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, talking about $1.2 billion, belonging to clients of MF Global, that simply vanished into thin air following the eighth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Think that asswipe will serve a day in prison? Pfft!

You seem to be making sense. I must be REALLY drunk...