On: UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy

[haswell]

This is a fantastic read. The sentencing process has always been a black box in my mental model of the world, and this was enlightening.

[tptacek → haswell]

The important thing to take away from it is that the DOJ deliberately misrepresents sentences in press releases, presumably for the deterrent factor. But you can just download the sentencing guidelines and follow the charts to get a likely range of actual months (it's interesting! I recommend it!) and they're virtually never anything like the DOJ's claim.

[andy_ppp → tptacek]

What are the sentences here likely to be?

[tptacek → andy_ppp]

I don't know, I didn't look. I read the indictment on PACER; it's probably on RECAP or whatever now. I could give you the offense statutes, I guess; you'd then have to look them up in the sentencing guidelines yourself. My point is, you should do that; the sentence range itself will be less illuminating than doing the work of seeing how it's reached.

Later

It's:

    18:371.F CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
    18:1349.F ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT WIRE FRAUD
    18:371.F CONSPIRACY TO TRANSPORT STOLEN PROPERTY INTERSTATE