Student Nailed for Sharing

[Sabro]

An Arizona college student is believed to be the first person in the country to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally downloading music and movies from the internet, prosecutors and activists say.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,66827,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7

Sabro

[Capmaster]

Not good ...not good at all .......once they have a precedent, it's just a matter of time

Quick everybody - check your hard drives for damning evidence

[johns0]

Quote:
A federal task force that monitors the Internet caught on to the student and got a warrant, Garza said, adding that Dhaliwal was copying and selling the pirated material.
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If you sell the stuff you deserve to be caught and charged.

[jaxxboss]

A friend of mine sold some movies on fleabay for one month and made close to $6000.00 before he got kicked off. He was selling "identity", and hulk and a couple others that came out that month. He cant get back on fleabay now, but he says he would do it again. he is one LUCKY SOB

[mh2360]

Using filesharing software to distribute copyright material is morally wrong and illegal. BUT! If i were a criminal, and decided to do this, then I would think that the Authorities would persue those that "pushed" the illegal material rather than those that "used" it. .... I'd better stop before I get another yellow card....

[Gurm]

mh2360 would be correct. The only people that ever get busted are the people hosting sites and "sharing" thousands of files. The RIAA/MPAA have even said that they only go after people who share "a large quantity" of files - and when pressed say that the number is in the high hundreds.

I'm not advocating piracy, I'm just saying that the "bigger fish to fry" concept is at work here.

I mean, how would they get a warrant to see what sort of stuff he had without him sharing it out for them to download? They wouldn't. They can't get a warrant without having downloaded a bunch of stuff from an end-user.