Warez Raids Net First Conviction For Software Piracy
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A 26-year-old college student faces 15 years in prison as the first person convicted of software piracy stemming from April&#39;s international raids dubbed &quot;Operation Fastlink.
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Two men have pleaded guilty to  copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and  movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for  piracy over "peer to peer" networks, the Justice Department  said.
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A multimillion-euro software piracy ring has been broken following synchronized raids in Athens and London yesterday, Attica police said.
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Federal agents yesterday took their first steps to go after individuals who illegally trade copyrighted music and videos over the Internet, seizing computers, software and related equipment at five homes around the country.
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It's unusual, but confirmation of the availability of Windows Vista's first service pack came not from Microsoft Corp., but from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Operation Digital Gridlock targets peer-to-peer sites, ISPs in piracy investigation.
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Greek and British police in a joint operation cracked an illegal software sales ring, arresting two people and seizing thousands of pirated software programs, Greek police said on Friday.
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SHENZHEN, China  - Pirated software worth $500  million, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec products,  has been seized in a long-running joint probe by Chinese police  and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials from  both countries said on Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, according to a software trade group. Nathan Peterson, of Antelope Acres, California, also forfeited nearly all of his assets to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, and he agreed to pay more than US$5.4 million in restitution, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) said. Peterson pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal copyright infringement in December. At that time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) called Backups.net "the largest for-profit software piracy site ever shut down by law enforcement." The Web site illegally sold software that would have been worth $20 million on the retail market, the DOJ said. Peterson will begin paying off the remaining $5 million in damages 60 days after his release from prison, at a rate of $200 per month. In criminal piracy cases, the average damages resulting from pirated software are just over $9 million, or less than half of the $20 million caused by iBackups, SIIA said. The $5.4 million Peterson agreed to pay in restitution is eight times the average fine of $659,000, according to a SIIA study tracking U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation cases on software piracy reported since 2000. Peterson's site used Google.com text ads to find customers, SIIA said. Buyers should be aware of the possibility that software being sold through text ads might not be legal, the trade group said. Neither the prosecutor nor Peterson's attorney immediately returned calls seeking comment.
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Just because your friends distribute 20,000 copyrighted works... An Illinois man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his part in an organized online software distribution conspiracy, the US Department of Justice announced late last week. That's warez, if you don't prefer the grandiose.â¦
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LEESBURG, Va. - A brother and sister who sent unsolicited junk e-mail to millions of America Online customers were convicted Wednesday in the nation&#39;s first felony prosecution of distributors of spam.
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Microsoft has filed its first lawsuits over allegedly counterfeit and illicit certificates of authenticity, the labels attached to software packages and computers to verify the legitimacy of the programs inside.
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The chief enforcement officer for the Business Software Alliance told attendees at a Gartner asset management conference yesterday that software audit raids with federal marshals and court orders against enterprise customers are rare.
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Two men have pleaded guilty to copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for piracy over "peer to peer" networks, the Justice Department said.
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Authorities have seized nearly 5 million pirated discs and arrested 870 people in a two-month anti-piracy operation in about a dozen Asia-Pacific nations.
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The company unveils the first version of a spyware-killing application based on technology from recently acquired Giant Software.
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BSA gives its definition of 'success' The BSA claims its month-long campaign to clamp down on software piracy in Glasgow is a âmajor successâ â despite uncovering just 41 potential pirates after haranguing thousands of businesses by letter.â¦