Is this a joke?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/963554.asp

“Johnny Cashless” (his name changed to protect his identity) is one of the Internet users caught up in the recording industry’s ongoing crackdown on Internet piracy. Now serving a 100-year sentence at a Supermax prison in the Midwest
Huh? 100 years in prison? For downloading? Daaamn. I dunno if this is a spoof....

Then

MSNBC: So what’s life like in here?
CASHLESS: Not much fun, that’s for sure. Incredibly tight security. And the place is getting more and more populated every day. Just last week they added five new prisoners on the tier. One was only 12 years old; they caught him downloading “Happy Birthday” for his younger sister. Wham! 25 years, just like that. Someone else got caught on visitors day, trying to sneak an MP3 file inside a cake. Fifty years at the drop of a gavel.
Holy ****, so it's not just the people having over 1000 songs.

So murderers spend less time in prison than a downlaoder of 50 Cent? That is seriously ****ed up.