File Sharing Admin Gets Prison Term

For peer-to-peer network administrators on the Internet file-sharing system has been sentenced to five months in prison for copyright infringement.

The T. Stanley, 23, was also given five months of home detention, three years of probation supervision and a fine of 3,000 US dollars, and his role in the elite torrents service, which uses a technology sharing called the BitTorrent. Stanley, they pleaded guilty to the charge, the royalties were sentenced on October 17.

Stanley is one of three persons were convicted, through surgery to the D - the elite, the federal government against vendors of pirated works, with outstanding torrents, agents closed in May 2005.

At the same time, the elite torrents, the network has more than 133,000 members and allegedly facilitated the illegal sale of more than 20 million books, films, software, music and games. Federal officials said, "Star Wars: Episode III _ Revenge of the Sith" is by elite torrents, the former six hours, and even introduced a theater.

"We hope that in such circumstances the information networks will not be as a shield, on condition of anonymity, those who choose to break our copyright law," Minister of Justice of the United States in a Dihanbu Brownlie the statement said.