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11-19-2012, 10:56 AM
The Recording Industry Association of America is happy to announce that an alleged content pirate was recently sentenced to 15 years in jail. A sting operation saw the individual selling 6 copyrighted CDs to an undercover agent.
Patrick Lashun King, 37, was lured into selling 5 films and 1 music CD to an undercover agent from the Attorney General’s Intellectual Property Theft Task Force. After the police searched his house, they found equipment for copying and over 10,000 pirated CDs, as well as weapons, though is unclear if those were legal or not. Besides, it is also unclear what King was going to do with the pirated disks.
Nine years ago, the individual in question had been found guilty for selling on copyrighted content and was sentenced to serving a year under house arrest. Now Copiah County Circuit Court ruled that King would serve 15 years and a further three on supervised release.
According to executive VP of anti-piracy at the Recording Industry Association of America, the term showed that the entertainment industry still had some muscles to flex. The music industry claimed that this sentencing showed that theft of intellectual property is considered a serious crime in the state and also stresses the fact that people engaging in such activities were often serial criminals who regarded IP theft as the most convenient and profitable way they could steal copyright content. The music industry thanked the Attorney General for his leadership in “IP enforcement”.
In the meanwhile, another man, Antwun Sharell Jones, was sentenced to two years for selling single copyrighted movie. Now amazing statistics comes: a local teacher was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexual battery of his former student; a former officer received 5 years sentence after pleading guilty to 5 counts of child exploitation; a woman of 22, alleged of gun trafficking, has also been told she has to serve 15 years in jail.
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Patrick Lashun King, 37, was lured into selling 5 films and 1 music CD to an undercover agent from the Attorney General’s Intellectual Property Theft Task Force. After the police searched his house, they found equipment for copying and over 10,000 pirated CDs, as well as weapons, though is unclear if those were legal or not. Besides, it is also unclear what King was going to do with the pirated disks.
Nine years ago, the individual in question had been found guilty for selling on copyrighted content and was sentenced to serving a year under house arrest. Now Copiah County Circuit Court ruled that King would serve 15 years and a further three on supervised release.
According to executive VP of anti-piracy at the Recording Industry Association of America, the term showed that the entertainment industry still had some muscles to flex. The music industry claimed that this sentencing showed that theft of intellectual property is considered a serious crime in the state and also stresses the fact that people engaging in such activities were often serial criminals who regarded IP theft as the most convenient and profitable way they could steal copyright content. The music industry thanked the Attorney General for his leadership in “IP enforcement”.
In the meanwhile, another man, Antwun Sharell Jones, was sentenced to two years for selling single copyrighted movie. Now amazing statistics comes: a local teacher was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexual battery of his former student; a former officer received 5 years sentence after pleading guilty to 5 counts of child exploitation; a woman of 22, alleged of gun trafficking, has also been told she has to serve 15 years in jail.
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