Software Pirate Gets 7 Years
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A federal judge sentences one of the largest U.S. software pirates to pay $5.4 million and forfeit homes, cars and a boat that he bought with proceeds from his scheme -- and spend 87 months in the hoosegow.
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A former asylum seeker who exploited immigrant workers is sentenced to seven years for money laundering.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.  Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold products copyrighted by companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.
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Continuing its crackdown on software pirates, German police arrested a 46-year-old lawyer, two brothers, and a teenager on Thursday for allegedly selling illegal software, movies, games, and music through a commercial online service, according to the German Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU).
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A man once called one of the Internet's most notorious pirates of music and movies was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for blowing up a portable toilet, prosecutors said.
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Brocade Communications Systems has agreed to pay a $7 million penalty to settle charges of stock-option backdating fraud.
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The Business Software Alliance scores a record settlement in a copyright infringement case.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said a junior trader who racked up more than $7 billion in losses misused computer access codes and falsified documents.
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A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
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SHENZHEN, China  - More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, 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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The US Department of Justice said that Jathan Desir, 26, of Iowa City, has pleaded guilty to charges related to distributed pirated software, games, movies and music over the Internet.
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A former executive with Computer Associates who pleaded guilty to securities fraud was sentenced to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention.
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Louisville businessman Vernon L. Jackson was sentenced yesterday to seven years and three months in federal prison for bribing Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) with more than $400,000 and company stock to promote his Kentucky firm's high-tech business ventures.
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Programmer who unleashed the Panda worm almost a year ago in China is sentenced.
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HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States&#39; House Judiciary Committee. The bill specifies up to five years&#39; jail for anyone making over a thousand copyrighted works available for download.
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A former professional goalkeeper who seriously injured a builder is jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
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(InfoWorld) - Earlier this month the Business Software Alliance (BSA) upped the ante from $200,000 to $1 million for anyone who turns in a company that is illegally circumventing software licensing agreements. BSA members include a who's who of the software and hardware industry, including Apple, Adobe, Dell, HP, Microsoft, SAP, and dozens more. The bounty for uncovering cheaters is not just a marketing ploy. The Association can, in fact, put some bite into uncovering cheaters, according to Kris Barker, CEO of Express Metrix. Express Metrix is a company that does hardware and software auditing to help companies keep in compliance with their software licenses. "Most software licensing agreements include a provision that allows a software vendor or its agent, which can be the BSA, to do an audit of end-user agreements," said Barker. The BSA increased the reward as software piracy continues to grow. According to IDC, U.S. software vendors lost $7.3 billion in 2006 as a result of piracy. However, turning in the man or woman in the cubicle next to you is not how an informer can earn the top reward. The BSA has 22 terms and conditions that must be met before the $1 million payoff is awarded. The rewards are based on sums received in out-of-court settlements, which is the most common way a company avoids any more punitive prosecution for piracy. In order to earn the $1 million, a company would have to settle out of court with the BSA for anywhere between $10,000,001 to $15,000,000. The terms and conditions also state, that "no reward is payable unless the BSA pursues a case and, as a direct result of the information provided by you, receives a monetary payment from the reported organization." A far more modest reward, up to $5,000, is given to anyone whose information leads to a settlement of $15,000 to $100,000. Despite many restrictions, BSA says that since 2005, out-of-court settlements have totaled $22 million. Another requirement of the terms and conditions states that an employee who has installed unlicensed software is not eligible for a reward unless "you were directed by your supervisor to do so." The rewards are part of a larger BSA campaign, which is appropriately titled, "Blow the Whistle."