Neowin News Feed for: Convicted

Four years in jail for Surfthechannel owner

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:06:51 +0000

The owner of one of the most popular sources of pirated material in the UK, Surfthechannel.com, has been sentenced to 4 years in jail after being found guilty of facilitating copyright infrigment. Read more...

Pirate Bay: We're not going to pay our fines

Sam Symons — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:29:54 +0000

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... Read more...

L.A.-area man first in nation convicted under anti-spam law

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:26:04 +0000

A man faces a sentence of up to 101 years in federal prison after being the first person in the U.S. convicted under a federal anti-spam law, authorities said. Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa,... Read more...

3 convicted in Xbox video game slayings

Marcel Klum — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:24:24 +0000

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Three men were convicted of murder Tuesday in the slayings of six people who authorities said were bludgeoned with baseball bats in a dispute over an Xbox video game system. The... Read more...

Arizona Student Convicted in Piracy Case

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:32:50 +0000

A student has been convicted of illegally downloading music and films from the internet in the first case if its kind in the US. Parvin Dhaliwal, who was studying at the University of Arizona, had... Read more...

US P2P Pirates Convicted

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:11:16 +0000

Two men have been convicted for piracy over peer-to-peer networks in the first case of its kind in the US. The pair, William Trowbridge from New York and Michael Chicoine of Texas, were running central... Read more...

Microsoft convicted of software piracy

Fri, 10 May 2002 11:20:12 +0000

Thanks PiMPiN. Microsoft was found guilty of software piracy last year by a French court, according to facts unearthed today by the geek community. But the Redmond giant's conviction and... Read more...

Nvidia engineer convicted of fraud

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:00:28 +0000

Thanks Kusanagi for this story. A federal jury has convicted an Nvidia Corp. engineer on charges of securities fraud, lying to authorities and obstruction of justice. Atul Bhagat, 29, of... Read more...