Neowin News Feed for: Prison

Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to prison for stealing Apple Car trade secrets

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:56:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Nintendo hacker Bowser released from prison, will pay off fine for the rest of his life

Usama Jawad — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:04:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Former Ethereum developer sentenced to over five years in prison for helping North Korea

Usama Jawad — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:06:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Samsung vice-chair Lee Jae-yong given parole for Liberation Day

Paul Hill — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 18:52:02 +0000

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. Read more...

Camcorder pirates in India could face up to three years in prison and $14,000 in fines

Usama Jawad — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:54:01 +0000

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. Read more...

After 27 million spam messages, 'Spam King' sentenced to 30 months in prison, fined $310,000

Usama Jawad — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:08:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Bitcoin issuers face 7 years in Russia's jails

Paul Hill — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 02:20:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Former Apple executive goes to jail; must pay company $4.4 million

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:48:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde released from prison

Usama Jawad — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:10:01 +0000

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 Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after two years on the run

Andy Weir — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:34:46 +0000

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. Read more...

ThePirateBay owners may face prison time

Andrew Lyle — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:14:46 +0000

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.... Read more...

Another EliteTorrents Uploader Facing 10 Years in Prison

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:26:10 +0000

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,... Read more...

MaGE Leader Sentenced to Prison

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:18:50 +0000

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... Read more...

Former Adelphia Executives Report to Prison

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:20:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Warez ringleader gets over four years in prison

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:34:11 +0000

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... Read more...

BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:40:50 +0000

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... Read more...

Film file-sharer sent to prison

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:30:00 +0000

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... Read more...

Sweden bans consoles in prison

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:45:36 +0000

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... Read more...

Record prison sentence for UK game pirate

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:23:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Dell drops prison labor

Sat, 05 Jul 2003 21:07:53 +0000

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,... Read more...

Theft, sale of Microsoft exams leads to prison

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:45:58 +0000

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,... Read more...

Prison for Welsh worm-writer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:48:50 +0000

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,... Read more...

Software piracy head sent to prison

Sat, 18 May 2002 16:10:21 +0000

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... Read more...