Man Gets 3 Years for Operating Music File-Sharing Site

The operator of a major music piracy site was sentenced to three years in prison. Rocky Ouprasith, now 23, was the man behind RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com. The latter was the second-largest online file-sharing site specializing in pirated music in the United States in 2013, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

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