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Friday, 19 September 2008 00:00

Barry Gitarts sentenced for his role in music piracy warez group aPC. (Court documents below)

 

Barry Gitarts, also known on the internet as Dextro fought a long and hard battle for his freedom in the United States Federal Court System. Originally it started when Barry decided to upset FBI agents by lying about his involvement in the warez scene and aPC, and also by erasing his hard drive , just to later admit it. 

After initially claiming to know nothing and to not being "Dextro", he later admitted that he was in fact the aPC member and was a scripter/siteop of one of aPC’s HQ ftp sites.

 

Barry’s problems didn’t stop there. His personal friend Robert Galapo further testified that the Defendant came to his house and enabled his computer to download movies, music, and software. If that wasn’t bad enough, fellow members of aPC testified against him in court.

 

Fellow aPC member Jacob Stahler was on the witness list, we are assuming that he did in fact testify against Dextro.  Jacob Stahler aka Lunatik or Luna was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Copyright Infringement and later sentenced to 2 years probation, no fines, and no restitution.

 

According to an associated press article released earlier today, Barry Gitarts was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.

 

Court Documents: [complaint] [Sentencing memorandum]

 

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