Prison for Warez Group operators and Hardcore P2P users - Only the Beginning on the Road to Tyranny
5 Months in a minimum security prison camp. No county-jail contract for his short sentence (it is common practice for <12mo sentences). He gets to self-report to prison. Has to wait for a letter and then has a 10-day deadline. The letter can take up to 6 months to arrive as he has to wait in an anti-overcrowding queue, (I think only low and minimum security prisons get this privilidge). Then he has 5 months of home confinement, which is like minimum security prison, but with much more plentiful visitation. Then 2-3 years of federal-probation (supervised release). I don't know how easy it is to get violated in federal probation compared to Arizona or New York probation (Arizona is easy to get violated and overbooked).
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3 Months for this one. This is in Hong Kong. Just a major uploader as opposed to a major operator of a large semi-private piracy group and BitTorrent tracker/index.
“not much of a difference between Chan’s uploading the movies and someone manufacturing and distributing illegal DVDs.” — The difference is Piracy-4-Money vs Piracy-4-Free. Piracy-4-Money has a higher lost-sale ratio than Piracy-4-Free.
