Cyberlocker and Pirate Operator Gets Three Years in Prison
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 11/20/2015 09:08 AM
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A 23-year-old North Carolina man, Rocky Ouprasith, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution. His crime was a conviction of criminal copyright infringement for operating the RockDizMusic.com piracy site and cyberlocker.
According to the government:
According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, between May 2011 and October 2014, Ouprasith operated RockDizMusic.com, a website originally hosted on servers in France and later in Canada, from which Internet users could find and download infringing digital copies of popular, copyrighted songs and albums. Ouprasith admitted that he obtained digital copies of copyrighted songs and albums—including “pre-release” songs that were not yet commercially available to consumers—from online sources and encouraged and solicited others, referred to as “affiliates,” to upload digital copies of copyrighted songs and albums to websites, including RockDizFile.com, that were hosted on servers in Russia, France, and the Netherlands, and that hosted hyperlinks to content being offered for download on RockDizMusic.com. Ouprasith further admitted that to encourage such activity, he agreed to pay the affiliates based on the number of downloads from his website.
He was shuttered last year. And according to documents, he "sometimes pretended" to comply with Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices by temporarily removing links to the infringing content "but soon thereafter posted new and different links to the very same infringing files."
In August he admitted that he largely ignored takedown requests for files on the RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com sites.
Source: Arstechnica
According to the government:
According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, between May 2011 and October 2014, Ouprasith operated RockDizMusic.com, a website originally hosted on servers in France and later in Canada, from which Internet users could find and download infringing digital copies of popular, copyrighted songs and albums. Ouprasith admitted that he obtained digital copies of copyrighted songs and albums—including “pre-release” songs that were not yet commercially available to consumers—from online sources and encouraged and solicited others, referred to as “affiliates,” to upload digital copies of copyrighted songs and albums to websites, including RockDizFile.com, that were hosted on servers in Russia, France, and the Netherlands, and that hosted hyperlinks to content being offered for download on RockDizMusic.com. Ouprasith further admitted that to encourage such activity, he agreed to pay the affiliates based on the number of downloads from his website.
He was shuttered last year. And according to documents, he "sometimes pretended" to comply with Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices by temporarily removing links to the infringing content "but soon thereafter posted new and different links to the very same infringing files."
In August he admitted that he largely ignored takedown requests for files on the RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com sites.
Source: Arstechnica
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