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In the case of United States v. Xiaolang Zhang which is ongoing since 2018, the California District Court has sentenced Zhang for imprisonment for stealing numerous documents about the Apple Car.

Karthik Mudaliar · Feb 9, 2024 with 7 comments

Hacker Gary Bowser from the infamous Team-Xecuter Nintendo piracy group has been released early from prison. However, he will likely be paying off fines to Nintendo for the rest of his life.

Usama Jawad · Apr 18, 2023 with 12 comments

Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has been sentenced to over five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for helping North Korea in leveraging cryptocurrencies to evade U.S. sanctions.

Usama Jawad · Apr 13, 2022 with 4 comments

Samsung's vice-chair Lee Jae-yong to be released from jail as part of South Korea's Liberation Day. He has served 18 months of his 30-month sentence which was handed to him at a January retrial.

Paul Hill · Aug 9, 2021 with 0 comments

A proposed amendment to India's Cinematograph Act suggests that camcorder pirates in India should face up to three years in prison and pay fines up to $14,000 if they distribute copyrighted content.

Usama Jawad · Jan 10, 2019 with 9 comments

Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed "Spam King" has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $310,000 after he pleaded guilty to fraud, including sending 27 million spam messages on Facebook.

Usama Jawad · Jun 16, 2016 · Hot! with 8 comments

An amendment to a proposed law in Russia will see those issuing surrogate currencies - such as Bitcoin - face up to seven years in prison. The new amendment also introduces fines of up to £25,000.

Paul Hill · Mar 11, 2016 · Hot! with 14 comments

One of Apple's ex-employees has been found guilty of selling confidential info to Apple's suppliers who would later send some cash the employee's way. He confessed and entered a plea agreement.

Vlad Dudau · Dec 9, 2014 · Hot! with 15 comments

The Pirate Bay co-founder, Peter Sunde, was freed from prison this morning after five months of time served; he plans to return to building a few different products he started previously

Usama Jawad · Nov 10, 2014 · Hot! with 23 comments

Peter Sunde, co-founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Sweden following almost two years on the run, after being sentenced to prison for copyright violations.

Andy Weir · Jun 1, 2014 · Hot! with 35 comments

ThePirateBay owners, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl LundstrÃ¶mare set to appear in court on Monday and could face two years in prison and a fine as high as $180,000 each....

Andrew Lyle · Feb 14, 2009 · Hot! with 136 comments

It seems that every few months the FBI manages to come up with yet more people to charge in connection with Operation D-Elite, the joint ICE and FBI raids against the US-based BitTorrent tracker EliteTorrents,...

· Nov 17, 2007 · Hot! with 17 comments

District Judge Frank D. Whitney has sentenced 27 year old Justin Paul Emch to prison on one felony count of conspiracy to infringe copyright while he was leader of the warez release group 'MaGE'. On...

· Nov 4, 2007 · Hot! with 42 comments

After fighting one of the US's largest corporate fraud cases, Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son Tim Rigas, the company's former chief financial officer, reported to federal prison in North Carolina today; the...

· Aug 13, 2007 · Hot! with 7 comments

After pleading guilty in a US federal court earlier this year, 44-year-old Hew Griffiths, the head of underground piracy group "DrinkOrDie", was sentenced to 51 months in jail last week on one count of conspiracy...

· Jun 26, 2007 · Hot! with 9 comments

The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker...

Steven Parker · Oct 27, 2006 · Hot! with 52 comments

A Hong Kong man has been jailed for three months for film piracy after he shared movie files over the internet. The authorities say he is the first person in the world to be prosecuted...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 7, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

Recent jailbreaks force prison officials to crack down on communication abilities in gaming systems. The Swedish prison service has banned PlayStations and other gaming systems in its prisons, according to reports in...

· Aug 13, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Within the UK courts today, the largest sentence was handed for games piracy. Cardiff Crown Court sentenced John Lamb to three and a half years of imprisonment for a counterfeiting offence. John Lamb is 45...

· Jul 22, 2004 with -1 comments

Dell Computer said Thursday it will stop using a contractor that relies on prison labor to dismantle and recycle computers. Dell said it has hired two new contractors to perform the work,...

· Jul 5, 2003 with 1 comment

Cheating on a computer test - how desperate can you get? A former Vancouver, Wash., man was sentenced last week to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years' probation,...

· Feb 4, 2003 with -1 comments

Two-year sentence should be deterrent to others, says judge. The inventor of the GoKar, Admirer and Redesi mass-mailing worms has been sentenced to two years in jail. Simon Vallor, 22, from Llandudno in North Wales,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 22, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks neo1980 for the heads up. The leader of "DrinkorDie," one of the oldest and largest international software piracy rings on the Internet, was sentenced on Friday to three years and eight months in prison...

· May 18, 2002 with -1 comments