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Sam Bankman-Fried has been given a 25-year jail sentence by Judge Lewis Kaplan for defrauding customers and investors. The sentence is seen as lenient as he had faced 40 or 50 years behind bars.

Paul Hill · Mar 28, 2024 with 18 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

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

Remember that recent Pirate Bay verdict? The one in which the four founding members of the website were convicted with a year long jail sentence and a $3.6 million fine? Yeah, well it turns out...

Sam Symons · Apr 22, 2009 · Hot! with 139 comments

After a battle lasting more than a decade, in early February 2007 an Oregon court gave a clean slate to former Intel contractor Randall Schwartz who was arrested and convicted for bypassing Intel security systems....

· Mar 3, 2007 with 3 comments

Hong Kong newspaper The Standard reports on what seems to be the world's first case of a BitTorrent movie pirate being sent to jail. (Others have been jailed for related crimes.) After losing his appeal...

· Dec 15, 2006 · Hot! with 11 comments

The owner of iBackups.net, Nathan Peterson of California, was sentenced to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy. He also forfeited nearly all of his assets and agreed to pay...

· Sep 11, 2006 · 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

A man found guilty of selling mod chips on his website in breach of the draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been sentenced to five months imprisonment and a $28,500 fine. David Rocci,...

Marcel Klum · Apr 10, 2003 with -1 comments

Russian hacker, lured to the United States by the FBI under the ruse of a job interview in a case that prompted a sharp rebuke from Moscow, was sentenced Friday to three years in prison...

· Oct 6, 2002 with -1 comments

The creator of the "Melissa" virus that snarled e-mail worldwide received a 20-month prison sentence on a New Jersey charge Friday, the same sentence he received on a federal charge earlier this week. ...

· May 4, 2002 with -1 comments

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