BitTorrent administrator convicted by DOJ

USDOJ: The Department of Justice announced its first peer-to-peer conviction on Friday. Daniel Dove, 26, got the first criminal conviction after jury trial for P2P copyright infringement. He was an administrator of EliteTorrents.org, which had a staff of elite “Uploaders” with fast connections who provided material for download. His is the eighth plea or conviction under DOJ’s Operation D-Elite, a federal crackdown against the illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over P2P networks using BitTorrent.