Neowin News Feed for: Sentenced

Samsung's vice chairman sentenced to five years for bribery and perjury

Paul Hill — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:36:01 +0000

Samsung's vice chairman has been sentenced to five years in jail by a South Korean court for a slew of financial crimes. His downfall is the latest bit of bad press that the company has received. 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...

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...

Father sentenced for killing toddler over broken Xbox

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:25:22 +0000

A man who killed his 17-month-old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Tyrone Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, killed Alayiah Turman with at least... Read more...

First Russian BitTorrent User Sentenced

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:17:51 +0000

With rampant piracy across much of Russia, one could be forgiven for thinking they don’t care about copyright there. That assertion is now up for debate as the first BitTorrent user in Russia is sentenced... 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...

£300k eBay Fraudsters Sentenced

Howard Thomson — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:35:36 +0000

A cell of three Romanian fraudsters have been sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud by deception and money laundering. The trio were sentenced in Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court, UK, after... Read more...

Man Sentenced in GTA San Andreas Leak

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:26:07 +0000

On October 15, 2004 joystiq.com reported that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had gone gold without notification from Take-Two or Rockstar. Our source was one "Steve Dotolli" (actually, Stephen Dottoli) of Inside Gamer Online. Mr.... Read more...

German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for Microsoft Fraud

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:25:54 +0000

A German man was jailed for five and a half years Thursday for repackaging cheap versions of Microsoft Corp. software and selling them on at a higher price. Ralph Blasek, a software... Read more...

US videogame pirate sentenced to over 4 years imprisonment

Marcel Klum — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 19:16:34 +0000

A court in California has handed down a hefty jail sentence to a man who is described as one of the leaders of infamous game piracy group Razor1911, which was one of the best-known online... Read more...

Woman sentenced for reading e-mail of husband's ex-wife

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:02:06 +0000

A judge sentenced an Arizona woman to 60 days home detention for intercepting her husband's ex-wife's e-mail, saying the penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same. ... Read more...

Chinese cyber dissident sentenced to five years

Sun, 18 May 2003 16:00:45 +0000

China's pioneering cyber-dissident Huang Qi, one of the first to be arrested for expressing his political views on the Internet, has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, lawyers and a rights group... Read more...

DEA data thief sentenced to 27 months

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:44:51 +0000

14-year veteran of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who fled to Mexico to avoid federal computer crime charges was sentenced in a federal court in Los Angeles on Monday to 27 months in prison... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft employee sentenced to 7 months for software piracy

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:42:38 +0000

If you have been chatting on IRC warez channels with someone called Warlock and you haven't seen him for the last 4 months, you might have been chatting with a former Microsoft employee who has... Read more...

Pirate Sentenced To Nearly 3 Years

Marcel Klum — Mon, 06 May 2002 09:15:04 +0000

A Symantec software engineer by the name of Barry Erickson has been sentenced to 33 months in prison following his guilty plea in the still unfolding DrinkOrDie piracy bust. According to prosecutors Mr. Erickson provided... Read more...