Alan Ellis, the former admin of the giant private torrent tracker OiNK, has been found not guilty on the charge of conspiracy to defraud, and will walk free.
At its peak, the indexing site had 200,000 members which had shared over 21 million music files.
The prosecutors had claimed that Ellis was receiving £11,000 a month in donations, and that there was $300,000 USD in Ellis' PayPal ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM: Nice one! But sooner or alter the rules will change and catch them regardless ><
he was cleared in the criminal courts of conspiracy to defraud a jumped up charge to enable the BPI (sony, emi, warner, universal)in the future to prosecute without having to fund civil cases.
all that will happen is the case will be taken through the civil courts as it rightly should be not wasting either the polices & criminal courts time or tax payers monies.
the civil litigation fees is what the media industry is desperately trying to avoid and i suspect there will be global rules that copywrite infringement must be policed & paid for by the tax payer in the secret ACTA treaty that is being drawn up by the media cartels with civil groups being denied access.
Quote:Michael Geist sez, "Reports from Costa Rica indicate that final approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States is languishing in the Legislative Assembly due to concerns over the copyright provisions. The CAFTA copyright provisions are similar to those found in the other major U.S. trade agreements concluded in recent years: DMCA-style protections, ISP liability, and copyright term extension are all part of the package.
Nice, man are they gunna be peeved over this. They are gunna chase this guy to the ends of the earth to get him I reckon. It's about time a court seen these lots for exactly what they are time wasters and cryers.
not really as the media industry are now going to have to fund a civil case and not waste tax payers monies on a jumped up charge.
i'm guessing that soon the law will be changed though and the cases will be using the public purse for litigation.
if this does happen it will be a very sad day as the media industry would have convinced our governments that what essentially is a civil matter is now a criminal offence purely for them to avoid the court costs.
