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RIAA Scores Victory in FIrst Ever Federal Trial
Posted by: Michael on Sun, May 25th, 2008

The RIAA has scored a victory in the first ever Federal Criminal Trial against an online music pirate. A 25 year old Barry Gitarts of Brooklyn (NYC) was convicted by a Federal Jury in Va. He faces up to 5 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine, oh and he also has to pay the RIAA for the music he pirated.

So can you face a similar case for sharing music? Nah probably not. Gitarts did a lot more than just share files on P2P, he hosted the server and made it available to everyone in a private group called “Apocalypse Production Crew”.

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