The National Post reports in its Thursday edition that two Ontario men accused of being the scofflaw pirates behind years of large-scale digital streaming of copyrighted movies and television have been sentenced to five years in prison -- not for piracy, but for contempt -- for refusing to reveal passwords and accounts. The Post's Adrian Humphries writes that Bell, Rogers, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Columbia and Warner Bros. spent years chasing the digital pirates behind a bootleg service known as Smoothstreams. Lawyers, private investigators and technology specialists traced Internet streams and servers, websites, payment processors, and corporate records which, in the summer of 2022, led them to the homes of a Canadian father and son. Ever since, Antonio Macciacchera, 73, of Woodbridge, and his son, Marshall Macciacchera, of Barrie, have been in a legal grapple, defying the might of global media heavyweights and failing to compensate the companies for their losses. In court proceedings, both men were ordered to turn their passports over at the start of their sentencing hearing for contempt this June. At sentencing, the Macciaccheras pleaded for jail time -- although they imagined far less than the judge.