MPAA helps land criminal conviction in P2P piracy case

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Sun, 06/29/2008 - 9:45pm

The Motion Picture Association of America has helped convict an administrator for EliteTorrents.org, a peer-to-peer site, of felony copyright infringement and conspiracy, the U.S.

Justice Department announced Friday.

Daniel Dove, 26, of Clintwood, Va., was the first criminal conviction after jury trial for peer-to-peer copyright infringement and the ...


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