The RIAA’s “conservative” estimate of how much that costs its member companies is $6.3 billion. He kept on chugging along, though, illegally storing and distributing works from scores of big-name artists, including Bruno Mars, Linkin Park, Pitbull, Pharrell Williams, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, Ariana Grande, Destiny’s Child, Ciara, Katy Perry, Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson, Kanye West, and Justin Bieber. You can see why the government might have gotten pretty fed up with him by that point: As the DOJ noted in its announcement of his sentencing, from 2012 to 2015, the RIAA sent Sargsyan over 100 takedown notices. If he thought that his guilty plea would lighten his sentence, Sargsyan thought wrong. In September, Artur Sargsyan pleaded guilty to one felony count of criminal copyright infringement related to Sharebeast, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) said facilitated unauthorized distribution and reproduction of over one billion copies of copyrighted works. A 30-year-old, US-based operator of multiple piracy-focused websites – including, , and – has been sentenced to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and more than $642,000 in restitution and forfeiture.Īccording to the copyright cops – the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – Sharebeast was the largest online file-sharing website specializing in the reproduction and distribution of pirate copyrighted music operating out of the US.
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