April 12, 2015 at 00:21Operators of the Wawa-Mania warez site were sentenced in absentia to a year in prison, while film studios want to pay $ 30 million in damages
Each year, the American Recording Industry Association (RIAA) and the American Film Association (MPAA) make a list of the “worst” sites, the most striking “pirate bays” that violate the rights of filmmakers and music makers.
The operator of one of these sites - Wawa-Mania - was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison. Now Dimitri Mader is in Asia, but after arriving in France, in addition to the deadline, he is waiting for a $ 30 million civil lawsuit from the world's largest film studios.
If Mader earned as much as the administrator of the torrent tracker GKS.gs , the payout period of $ 30 million would be 11 thousand 350 years.
Dimitri Mader opened Wawa-Mania in November 2006. The site has become one of the largest resources of its kind with two million registered users. Because of this, he attracted the attention of copyright holders, and in 2009, Madera was detained by law enforcement agencies. This happened after the Anti-Visual Piracy Association identified over 3,600 films available on Wawa-Mania.
Five years later, this week, it became known that Mader was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 20,000 euros. Demetrius was sentenced in absentia since he had recently fled to the Philippines. The court also ordered the closure of Wawa-Mania, but it remains accessible through the use of the Ecuadorian domain and the Moldovan hoster, who used to use The Pirate Bay.
The bad news for Madera does not end there. Major film studios including Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount, Tristar, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. want to pay damages in the amount of $ 30 million dollars. Hearings scheduled for May.
The operator of one of these sites - Wawa-Mania - was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison. Now Dimitri Mader is in Asia, but after arriving in France, in addition to the deadline, he is waiting for a $ 30 million civil lawsuit from the world's largest film studios.
If Mader earned as much as the administrator of the torrent tracker GKS.gs , the payout period of $ 30 million would be 11 thousand 350 years.
Dimitri Mader opened Wawa-Mania in November 2006. The site has become one of the largest resources of its kind with two million registered users. Because of this, he attracted the attention of copyright holders, and in 2009, Madera was detained by law enforcement agencies. This happened after the Anti-Visual Piracy Association identified over 3,600 films available on Wawa-Mania.
Five years later, this week, it became known that Mader was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 20,000 euros. Demetrius was sentenced in absentia since he had recently fled to the Philippines. The court also ordered the closure of Wawa-Mania, but it remains accessible through the use of the Ecuadorian domain and the Moldovan hoster, who used to use The Pirate Bay.
The bad news for Madera does not end there. Major film studios including Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount, Tristar, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. want to pay damages in the amount of $ 30 million dollars. Hearings scheduled for May.
