Two individuals who maintained and distributed music pre-release on file-sharing website Dancing Jesus were yesterday sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court to a total of four years and five months in prison.

After changing his plea to guilty last month, Richard Graham of Leicestershire, was sentenced to 21 months for distributing more than 8,000 tracks, two thirds of which were pre-release. 

Kane Robinson, of North Shields, the owner and administrator of the site, pled guilty in January this year. He ...