With more and more people joining the Linux community it sad to announce that we lost one member: Scott McCausland (AKA sk0t), the ex-admin of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker, was sentenced to five months imprisonment after he confessed to uploading copies of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith just before its theatrical release. And if that wasn’t enough his internet connection is being monitored, and if he uses his favorite OS (Ubuntu) he will be denied any use of computers.

“It isn’t the fact that I have to be monitored that bothers me, it is the fact that I have restructure my life (different OS, different software on that OS) and that they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently unemployed and relatively unemployable with the two felonies that they gave me,” McCausland told TorrentFreak.

Pretty ridiculous… [via TorrentFreak]