Software Sting Leads to Arrests, Seizures of Pirated Goods
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After a two-year investigation, U.S. law enforcement officials have disrupted one of the largest software piracy operations in the United States with the arrest of 11 suspects in California, Washington and Texas. In the raid, FBI agents seized pirated applications valued as high as US&#36;87 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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The FBI seized computers and software as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyrighted materials over peer-to-peer networks, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced.
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It disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and is making a series of arrests against purveyors of spam.
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Hi-tech criminals are stealing key business data and ransoming it back to the firms they stole it from, say police.
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Suspect accused of stealing and distributing source code over the Internet.
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ederal authorities searched computers in six locations yesterday in an attempt to disrupt a network used to trade copies of movies, software, games and music.
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Dissatisfied customers led to his demise A Southern California man was arrested for allegedly producing and selling thousands of dollars worth of pirated software from Microsoft and Adobe, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's department.â¦
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Leak casts light on controversial tactics that may have been employed by the anti-piracy company.
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Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said Wednesday.
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Months after launching a federal investigation, authorities yesterday arrested a Connecticut man for selling the source code for Microsoft&#39;s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems over the Internet.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 25, 2004 - Federal agents seized computers and software Wednesday as part of an investigation targeting an Internet network used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.
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Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
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25 arrested Pirated Microsoft software, estimated by the firm to be worth more than $2bn, has been seized by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Chinese police following a long-running joint operation which began in 2005.â¦
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The FBI has seized equipment as part of the first copyright action taken against file-sharing networks.
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California police arrested a man on Tuesday who allegedly sold illegally copied Microsoft and Adobe Systems software on the Internet for seven years, netting him an estimated $750,000.
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DOJ announces arrests, convictions for online fraud and other Net-related crimes.
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Continuing a crackdown on digital piracy, federal agents on Wednesday raided five locations housing equipment used by elite hackers to exchange unauthorized copies of blockbuster films and popular music.