"The ICE campaign against websites has caused controversy over whether ICE has side-stepped due process. Compare the treatment of the creators of peer-to-peer sites that were ultimately ruled to be illegal, like Grokster and now Limewire. Entertainment companies had to engage in years of litigation to shut down those sites, and the idea of putting the creators of those sites in prison wasn’t even on the table. McCarthy, on the other hand, will have to fight an uphill battle to keep himself out of prison—at no expense whatsoever to the sports leagues who, according to court documents, helped the government target his site. "
As JoeMullin says in the PaidContent article at http://paidcontent.org/article/419-feds-campaign-against-pir...
"The ICE campaign against websites has caused controversy over whether ICE has side-stepped due process. Compare the treatment of the creators of peer-to-peer sites that were ultimately ruled to be illegal, like Grokster and now Limewire. Entertainment companies had to engage in years of litigation to shut down those sites, and the idea of putting the creators of those sites in prison wasn’t even on the table. McCarthy, on the other hand, will have to fight an uphill battle to keep himself out of prison—at no expense whatsoever to the sports leagues who, according to court documents, helped the government target his site. "