BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison

The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents. This ruling is the first BitTorrent related conviction in the US. Stanley pleaded guilty earlier this year to “conspiracy to commit copyright infringement” and “criminal copyright infringement”. He is one of the three defendants in the Elitetorrents operation better known as “Operation D-Elite”.

Yet another case of “crime does not pay“. One of the primary reasons, it seems, that he was charged was due to the fact that the site was registered in the USA. That’s a huge no no, as we are all well aware of at this point. How long until we see more cases of this in the news?