30 years of jail for the guy who runs kickass torrents

Well first of all, he wasn't sentenced yet, so arguing about his punishment doesn't make any sense at the moment.
Also I think we can all agree that he did something illegal, no matter if you think piracy is kind of okay or totally wrong, it is still illegal and you know you could get punished for it. That's all that happened so far. He did something illegal and was caught, and actually he should have known that this could happen.
On the other hand I agree with a lot of people, that a 30 year sentence would be a joke. Piracy is a crime, but in comparison to other crimes, it is kind of harmless. First of all the actual damage is kind of low. No human suffers any harm, the monetary damage isn't really big in most cases, because like 90% of the people using it would have never spend a dollar on any product in the first place.
I think piracy is on a level of tax evasion. You don't do real damage to anybody but you screw millions of people. The only difference is that piracy hurts people with money and tax evasion is used by people with money.

oooooohhhhhh companies and hollywood producers losing money because of that guy :(((((((((((((((

yes let's show the world what happens when they make them poor.

is this real? lmao good fucking job

At least he didn't warn a company promising their customers encryption of their data that customer info was lying on a public FTP server, they send an FBI death squad to your house if you do that.

Leeches sad they can't leech no more

That's excesive, it's not like he killed or raped somebody, he just shared files without permission. And it wasn't even top secret state files, it was entertaiment media, copyright laws can get seriously ridiculous.
30 years for that? That's like 5 tops, more like 1 or 2, it doesn't seem fair to me.

for killing someone you sit for 25 years so :D

Well I only used KAT sometimes so not a big loss. 1337x.to for the win :)

Someone already brought kat back to life + they added mobile version too.

source

Fuck torrents, I used KAT because of the great community, damn, now it is gone!

Also the owner did not share anything, just provided the site where people could share files and torrents were removed whenever DMCA wanted. So why exactly did they arrest him? I must miss something.

yep, better try closing the whole internet if we are at it instead of actually trying to reach people who would gladly pay for a legal alternatives for said content

because we all know hammering down on eviiil pirates certainly solved any...oh wait, it never did

then again RIAA and all those copyright maffia corps dont care about offering legal alternatives for such content distribution, they dont care about content creators either. They only care about making money off their back.

good ol copyright hypocrisy in general

remember folks: the very same morons predicted the death of the movie industry when VCR and writable DVD-s came out, the very same fuckheads predicted the death of the music industry

none of those happened

I can only repeat what Gabe Newell once said and its still relevant in this case: piracy is a service problem

also

1.piracy will never be killed, no matter what Hollywood and all those smartasses wants to believe

2.people who dont want to pay for said content wont be suddenly converted to be legitimate users with legal consequences

maybe if legally bought DVDS etc wouldnt immediately treat paying customers as potential criminals, if they wouldnt try and enforce regional restrictions over the internet....then again one can dream I suppose

Piracy basically fills a place for, wait for it, not only cheapskates but for people who are tired that legally bought content performs worse than the same version that you can download for free or when anti piracy only ends up harming legitimate users.

a woman in a town near me killed her 8 babies and got 14 years in prison for that...

Ah, I didnt understand why I wasnt able to contact the kat website yesterday. There are plenty of alternatives though.

30 Years. Ouch. I doubt he will get sentenced to 30 years though. Even if he gets just 5 or 10 its an awful lot.
In my country you can kill people and get less prison time (than 5-10 years). And yes, in my book thats WAY worse than some copyright infringement.

This thread is such a mess. I doubt the OP will ever fix the title...

Must be sentenced by an US court ... unbelievable!