So this is a slightly strange situation. I'm on another forum that's quite close knit, with just 30-50 regular posters, and one of those posters set up a website a long time ago which ended up basically being a place where people could share links to records hosted online.
The site became quite popular, but was then shut down in 2011 and he was arrested and charged.
He's had this hanging over him for a long time now, and the court case was continually delayed until quite recently when he pleaded guilty to 2 of the 4 counts against him.
To cut a long story short, he was sentenced a couple of days ago and received a 32 month prison term. To view the link you have to Register or Login
Now I know that file sharing is wrong, and I dont want to go down the route of this turning into a morality conversation, but that is an extremely excessive and harsh sentence in my opinion for someone who basically set up a website at a very young age and didn't police it or stop it being indexed by Google.
There are so many more violent, aggressive and intrusive crimes one could commit where the punishment wouldn't be anywhere near as excessive!
As a slight aside, his solicitor was beyond incompetent, to the extent that my friend only found out when he would be sentenced because a friend in Leicester sent him a photo of a newspaper clipping which talked about his co - accuser pleading guilty also.
The site became quite popular, but was then shut down in 2011 and he was arrested and charged.
He's had this hanging over him for a long time now, and the court case was continually delayed until quite recently when he pleaded guilty to 2 of the 4 counts against him.
To cut a long story short, he was sentenced a couple of days ago and received a 32 month prison term. To view the link you have to Register or Login
Now I know that file sharing is wrong, and I dont want to go down the route of this turning into a morality conversation, but that is an extremely excessive and harsh sentence in my opinion for someone who basically set up a website at a very young age and didn't police it or stop it being indexed by Google.
There are so many more violent, aggressive and intrusive crimes one could commit where the punishment wouldn't be anywhere near as excessive!
As a slight aside, his solicitor was beyond incompetent, to the extent that my friend only found out when he would be sentenced because a friend in Leicester sent him a photo of a newspaper clipping which talked about his co - accuser pleading guilty also.
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