BitTorrent Pirate Gets 5 Years in Prison, €10,000 Fine, For Decade-Old Offenses * TorrentFreak
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Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a now-defunct torrenting site 10 years ago — Greece goes tough on torrenting - WorldNL Magazine
(Image credit: Shutterstock) A Greek man recently received a hefty prison sentence and fine for running a long-defunct torrenting site. The 59-year-old ran a website, P2Planet, that contained over 14,000 torrent file links from 2011 to 2014, and was thus sentenced to five years in prison and a €10,000 fine, plus €1,800 in court fines.The Single-Member Criminal Court of Appeal of Piraeus found that the 59-year-old was liable for involvement in t…
In Greece, for the first time, an operator of a torrent site was sentenced to a prison sentence. The 59-year-old has to pay a fee of EUR 10,000 for five years - even though his platform P2Planet.net has been closed for over a decade. (Continue reading)
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