14 DAY TRIAL // The MPAA anti-piracy battle continues with another pirate caught: Edgar Rubio Corazon, a 26-year-old living in Mexico, has been arrested and sentenced to six years and six months in prison for storing and selling pirated content on the Internet. The man has also received a fine of 428,400 pesos after he was found guilty for selling music, movies and TV-series through his own website on the Internet. During the police investigation, no less than 1,024 audio files and 3,069 CD were seized, all of them containing pirated material which was supposed to be sold on the Internet, MPAA informs in a notification.
It seems like the authorities managed to catch him using the traditional methods: the investigators got his IP address which led them to the Internet Service Provider where all his contact information could be found. Using the incriminatory evidence they got and the private details provided by the ISP, the police raided the 26-year-old man's house, arrested him and seized the CDs, plus other pirated material.
This is not the first time when pirates are arrested after having attempted to sell pirated content on the Internet, but it just seems like the other pirates who continue to run their illegal business are simply ignoring these cases and choose to remain on the wrong side.
However, it's important to see that copyright organizations and anti-piracy groups make several efforts to reduce this phenomenon which is said to be growing all over the world. MPAA, for instance, is the same organization currently involved in numerous lawsuits with popular BitTorrent services. Moreover, the people behind MPAA have also won an important suit against TorrentSpy, the already-closed BitTorrent website which now has to pay a fine of no less than $110 million after having been found guilty of piracy.