A 23-yr-previous North Carolina guy was sentenced (PDF) to three several years in jail Tuesday and purchased to shell out $ one hundred,000 in fines and restitution following a conviction of felony copyright infringement for operating the RockDizMusic.com piracy website and cyberlocker.
The authorities mentioned that the quantity of pirated content on servers that defendant Rocky Ouprasith managed in France and the Netherlands was valued at $ 6 million. Ouprasith pleaded guilty (PDF) in August and admitted that he mainly overlooked takedown requests for documents on the RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com web sites.
The government stated: