Feds deliver piracy conviction
FROM VARIETY: Administrator for EliteTorrents found guilty
By William Triplett of Variety -- Video Business, 6/30/2008
JUNE 30 | FROM VARIETY: The federal government has nailed its first jury trial conviction against a peer-to-peer pirate, the Justice Dept. announced Friday.Daniel Dove, 26, was "an administrator for EliteTorrents.org, an Internet piracy site that, until May 25, 2005, was a source of infringing copyrighted works, specifically pre-release movies," the DOJ said. "Elite Torrents used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology to distribute pirated works to thousands of members around the world."
A federal jury in Big Stone Gap, Va., convicted Dove. He could face up to 10 years in prison.
Read the full story on Variety.com.
© 2009, Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.