Anti-Piracy lawyers sentenced to prison for defrauding copyright holder clients

We can also attribute the quote "Child pornography is great" to Mr Schlüter. Overall nasty guy.

https://falkvinge.net/2012/05/23/cynicism-redefined-why-the-...

“My friends,” Schlüter said. “We must filter the Internet to win over online file sharing. But politicians don’t understand that file sharing is bad, and this is a problem for us. Therefore, we must associate file sharing with child pornography. Because that’s something the politicians understand, and something they want to filter off the Internet.”

I remember one of these guys from back in the early computing days. He would go after young kids for pirating c64 games. What a prick.

A similar thing happened in Iceland a few years ago. Article is in Icelandic: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2017/05/05/snaebjorn_daem...

The only crime here is that they were allowed to collect money in the first place from innocent victims. They should have gotten life and no one would be sorry for them. But then again, so should their clients.

So the record companies got the same treatment as they gave their artists? Delicious.