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[url=http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20030627/105677256000.html:538c5]Pirateers Beward[/url:538c5]

This bloke is fucked. That's it. As soon as he gets out of jail, he's going to be paying 500 dollars a month out of his paycheck from this mystery job that hes going to hope he gets. More than likely he's not going to get shit. He'll be paying this debt for 30,000 years, so of course this was more a "example" sentence than anything else. But still, this sets a nice little precedent since the figure of 180 million is based on the revenue the satellite companies would have lost if his scheme to sell 5000 users free cable went through. What this could mean for "content" providers (movie studios, music companies) is that damages can be determined based on the amount of revenue lost based on what has been downloaded from you. So those FTP's and mIRC folks who have had 100's of GIGABYTES downloaded from them could be looking at hefty ass penalties if this piracy hunt gets that far.

But bottom line. . .180 million. God damn.