Neowin News Feed for: Sentence

Sam Bankman-Fried given more lenient jail sentence of 25 years; could be free in 13 years

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:34:01 +0000

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. 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...

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: 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...

Intel 'hacker' sentence expunged

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:44:32 +0000

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.... Read more...

World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:07:42 +0000

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... Read more...

Software Pirate Gets Record Sentence

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:28:59 +0000

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... 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...

Jail sentence and fine for mod chip retailer

Marcel Klum — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:44:01 +0000

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,... Read more...

Russian hacker gets 3-year sentence

Sun, 06 Oct 2002 04:32:52 +0000

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... Read more...

Creator of 'Melissa' virus gets another 20-month sentence

Sat, 04 May 2002 12:18:09 +0000

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. ... Read more...