Creator of “Dancing Jesus” music site hit with 32-month jail sentence
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Two men in the United Kingdom have been sentenced to jail for operating "Dancing Jesus," a website with illegal links to music that was operational between 2006 and 2011.
Piracy sites in the US have led to major civil lawsuits, but criminal copyright charges for distributing music are a rarity, with Kim Dotcom's Megaupload being a huge exception to that rule. In the UK, however, private copyright investigations can lead to criminal prosecutions and jail time, such as the four-year-sentence for Anton Vickerman, who created the illegal TV-linking site SurfTheChannel.
One should ask how many people have bought music because they could listen to it for free first. Research is always ignored when it shows proof that "pirates" buy more music.