Man sentenced over movie downloads
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A JAPANESE court has sentenced a self-employed man to a one year suspended jail term for allowing free downloads of two popular Hollywood films through a popular file-sharing software program.
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Now that millions of Americans download music from the Internet, Joshua Goldman thinks consumers are ready for the next step: downloading high-quality videos of everything from nature documentaries to classic Hollywood movies.
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LOS ANGELES: A Malaysian resident who ran a website which charged users to watch pirated films was ordered by a California court to pay US$23.8mil (RM90.4mil) to movie studios, the industry&#39;s trade group said on Tuesday.
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The leader of one of an Internet software piracy group was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
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LAFAYETTE - A DeRidder man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison on federal child pornography charges.  Jeffrey Johnson, 37, was convicted in August after a one-day trial.
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The owners of a Beijing DVD show were convicted Monday of offering pirated movies. Fines and mandatory removal of the offending material were the order of the day.
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US Supreme Court takes up the case of a man convicted of trying to distribute make-believe porn.
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A man who admitted "cybersex" with a girl is jailed in what is thought to be a historic case.
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MANCHESTER, England - His driving was too swift, but his thinking wasn't. A 28-year-old man who blew up a speed camera, hoping to destroy evidence of his speeding, was sentenced to four months in prison on Wednesday.
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A computer technician involved in a bid to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise for copies of the actor's stolen wedding photographs was sentenced on Thursday to two years probation.
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A California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution for selling pirated software online.
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FARGO, N.D. - A man who stripped to the waist, put on safety goggles and tore up a Verizon Wireless store after complaining of bad phone service has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.
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A suburban Los Angeles  man has been sentenced to five years in prison and fined  $350,000 for participating in an international cable-piracy  scheme involving the sale of more than 100,000 cable  descramblers.
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A teacher is told he faces jail after being found guilty of using his computer to access child pornography.
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Two men are convicted of swapping films and music over the net and face up to five years in prison.
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Movie director John McTiernan was sentenced to four months jail and given a 100,000-dollar fine on Monday for lying to investigators probing a Hollywood wire-tapping scandal.
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By Elena Olmstead, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 8--A 27-year-old Richland man admitted Thursday to downloading more than 200 videos and 2,200 images of child pornography to his computer.   Andrew K.