Torrent Administrator condemned to prison

The Administrator of Elite Torrents was sentenced to 18 months of prison and a fine of 20.000$



Daniel Dive, a 26 year`s old American from Virginia, was sentence to 18 months of prison and a fine of 20.000$ for his administrative function of the EliteTorrents web-site.
This is the final sentence of this case which dates from 2005, when the FBI and ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) closed the EliteTorrents web-site, a torrent tracker with over 130.000 members.
Dove is one of the tree administrators arrested in this case and the only one who said he`s not guilty. While the other two co-operated with the authorities and received easy penalties, of 5 months in jail and 5 month home prisoner, Dove played his chances in front of a jury in which he failed.
The procurator accused him that he was responsible for the recruiting of the important uploaders, with bandwidth of approximately 50 times bigger than the usual connections to internet access, and that he operated a server of high speed to distribute illegal material.