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Originally Posted by woj
what I said didn't quite come out right, heh
I always thought these release groups are not much more than a hobby, I thought they all just do it for some online rep and shits and giggles, any financial gain is minimal... so you gotta be pretty damn retarded to get 5 years for a hobby like that, especially if you are 40 years old...
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Just because it is a Hobby will not wash with a judge, nor would the lack of revenue (although unlikely). Seemed a pretty serious, organised and concerted attempt. I can bet the prosecution just takes 50,000 downloads and multiplies that into lost DVD or cinema ticket sales and all of a sudden there is large values floating around.
Torrent seeding and fining the downloader is also becoming a huge growth business generating vast amounts of cash for the various partners.