Owner of film piracy site given four year jail term

By 2006-12-11T00:00:00

The head of a web forum known as PIR8 has been sentenced to four years in jail, the longest term for a film piracy case in the UK to date. A further five men who worked for the site were also sentenced to imprisonment on Friday (8th December) at Birmingham ...

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