DrinkorDie’s Griffiths: Guilty
p2pnet.net news:- DoD (DrinkorDie) member Bandido, better known to the world at large as Hew Raymond Griffiths, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, and another of criminal copyright infringement.
For three years he fought his extradition to America from an Australian jail, but in February the Department of Justice won its fight to get Griffiths onto US territory.
“If convicted on both counts, Griffiths could receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine,” says the Student Operated Press.
Born in England, Griffiths, “admitted that he oversaw all the illegal operations of DrinkOrDie, which specialized in cracking software and distributing the cracked versions over the Internet,” says the story.
“If this ruling holds, it is a sad, sad day for Australia, and another step towards an American legal system bought and paid for interest groups who get what they want, when they want, with no thought of whether the punishment fits the crime,” said an Internet Scout Project post in 2004.
(Thanks, Mez)
Also See:
Hew Raymond Griffiths – DrinkorDie Griffiths faces jail, February 23, 2007
Student Operated Press – RExtradited Software Piracy Ringleader Pleads Guilty, April 22, 2007
Internet Scout Project – Thin End of the Wedge, September 8, 2004
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April 22nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm
American ‘Justice’; the best that money is able to buy.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Well the guy and his BIG MOUTH brought it on himself!
I think if he would have stayed off the media mafias radar screen and layed low….he would probably never have been in prison to begin with.
But bragging that you pirate and will never be caught, only makes you that much more of a target. He basically did it to himself.