Warez case ‘guilty’ pleas
p2pnet.net News:- Three men who admitted sending computer games, movies and software around the world through a coded system of Web sites and chat rooms have the dubious distinction of becoming the first people convicted in the largest investigation into software piracy, as the US Justice Department describes the case.
“Their arrests came after FBI agents in New Haven spent more than a year looking into the underground ‘Warez’ community on the Internet,” continues the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
One of the men, Seth Kleinberg, cracked the computer industry’s “toughest copyright protections”.
“It’s a competition of different groups racing to release pirated software over the Internet,” Kleinberg, from Los Angeles, is quoted as saying. Aged 26, he faces between five and six years in prison when he’s sentenced in July, says the Post story.
Jeffrey Lerman, 20, of New York, and Albert Bryndza, 32, of New York, also pleaded guilty to federal copyright charges and, “Investigators said that software valued at millions of dollars was copied and sold for pennies in foreign countries,” says the Associated Press.
The mainstream media named the three the “Robin Hoods of cyberspace”.
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See:-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Feds crack down on software piracy sites, March 8, 2005
Associated Press – Three Plead Guilty to Copyright Charges, March 8, 2005
March 9th, 2005 at 7:05 pm
I’m sure the corporation lawyer types won’t like the mainstream media calling these guys the Robin Hoods of the Internet. It sure would put a dent in their futile PR battle against their customers.
March 9th, 2005 at 7:26 pm
The US government is a power hungry monster feeding on souls of american, and the world. I suggest that anyone so smart to remove the strongest copywrights, to do some study about moving his information warez into other countries, where the US has no juristriction. There are many loopholes in the system, we just need to hack them. If you are going to break the law, do some studying on what your doing, in most cases a loophole can be found to manipulate the system. If you goinf to be a criminal be AL Copone, bit a pick pocket.
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March 9th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
hmm….
end of the scene?