Piracy linking site owner gets sentenced to jailtime

So basically they hit him with a trafficking charge. In the US if you stand on a street corner and a drug addict asks you where to buy some Meth and the police see you point in a specific direction you can get hit with a trafficking charge. All you did was point in the direction. That's a crazy ruling

I agree that the ruling is excessive, if not crazy, but you're going to have to provide a citation of anyone ever hit with a trafficking charge in that manner, ruff469. All anyone has to do to beat it in court, after all, is to say, "I thought he asked me for the nearest {bathroom, post office, restaurant, etc.}," after all.

For a cop to even try this, he already hated you, or otherwise had his eye on you.

In America he probably would have got 5 YEARS.

This is ridiculous, if this is the case, then shouldn't search engines such as Google, be fined as well? I can type in "Name of movie" + torrent in Google, and get results linking to piracy sites, the same principle applies here, the only difference is that Google "links" more than just piracy sites.

that is totally crazy there are hundreds of people in italy that are watching streaming videos from youtube to even illegal sites and there not getting busted but you busted one person for pointing where to go man you suck

Tabloid newspapers here in the UK have recently been publishing shock/horror articles about the Silk Road website including details about how people are using Tor software to access it and using Bitcoin to pay for stuff. Basically everything you need to know. Are they guilty of trafficking?

Originally posted by mike.m:

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This is ridiculous, if this is the case, then shouldn't search engines such as Google, be fined as well? I can type in "Name of movie" + torrent in Google, and get results linking to piracy sites, the same principle applies here, the only difference is that Google "links" more than just piracy sites.

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"I think the difference here is, that Google links to a link to a movie. Not directly to the movie."

So they went after him, not the actual streaming sites... jeez.