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Five Men Behind Huge Pirate Streaming Site Want Their Convictions Overturned. (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Wow he's facing 48 years in prison for distributing some ones and zeros on the internet. A DEA agent recently ran over and killed a mother riding her bicycle near me after running a stop sign to catch up to his buddies and the courts ruled that he's immune from being held liable for his actions.

Funny how justice works in the US.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

It's not just the US, trust me. One horribly true fact of life is justice only works for those who can afford it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Law is not Justice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand he created a streaming site with over 200TB of content, and made several million dollars selling access to it.

While 48 years is a ridiculously draconian sentence, he wasn't exactly an amateur pirate seeding his torrents too much or giving too many friends access to his Plex. He broke the one rule we all know will get your shit turned upside down: he directly profited off of piracy.

And he did it all using domestic web services inside the USA where he has zero legal protection...

I'm not so keen on fighting for this guy, because what he did isn't comparable to even the most impressive Jellyfin admins on this sub, and he had awful opsec. If anything just learn a lesson from this guy and just maintain your own little personal archive for entertainment purposes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Victim blaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Victim? He did something he knew was illegal. How is he the victim in any way? Should it be illegal? I dunno, but it is. That's the end of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dismissing something just because it's digital is pretty stupid.

I think the sentence is very extreme but there are a LOT of crimes and maybe serious ones that can be summed up to "did stuff with ones and zeros".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

there are a LOT of crimes and maybe serious ones that can be summed up to "did stuff with ones and zeros".

While that's true, this ain't really one of them. I don't really support for profit piracy, but when juxtaposed against negligently taking a life, it's insane to see the disparity between the punishments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Police and courts exist to serve the state's interests, not the interests of that state's citizens. Those interests can diverge a great deal. Doesn't change in a democracy, it's just not about us.