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Selling pirated songs online nets jail term
News A New York man was sentenced to six months in jail after being convicted of using the Internet to sell hundreds of CDs that were loaded with unauthorised copies of songs. Judge Reggie B Walton of the US District Court of Washington, D.C.last week...
[October 10, 2003, 15:15]
Hynix execs to be jailed over price fixing
News Four executives with Hynix Semiconductor in South Korea have agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and serve five to eight months in jail. But one of its former employees, Alfred Censullo, agreed to a plea bargain in 2003 in which he paid a fine...
[March 2, 2006, 8:25]
Clink for DrinkorDie software counterfeiters
News Steven Dowd, 39, of Merseyside, was sentenced to two years for conspiracy to defraud, and Mark Vent, 30, of Essex pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud last summer and was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
[May 6, 2005, 17:20]
Trial date set for Kournikova suspect
News Authorities have scheduled the trial for a police court which means that if found guilty, Dutchman Jan de Witt of Sneek in the northern province of Friesland will face a maximum of six months in jail.
[June 21, 2001, 13:49]
'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years
News Fellow conspirator How Wai John Hui was sentenced to 51 months in prison and had to forfeit $500,000, while John Bown was sentenced to 32 months in jail and had to forfeit $120,000. William Neil, who created and served one of the computer spam...
[November 25, 2009, 16:04]
COPA backers slam ruling, urge appeal
News Violators would face up to six months in jail and up to $50,000 (£30,000) in fines per violation. I'm not ready to go to jail. The anti-pornography group Enough is Enough blamed COPA's latest legal defeat on the lead plaintiff in the case, the...
[February 3, 1999, 9:26]
Record execs risk arrest for MP3 hacks
News For example, Australia's legal code contains a provision allowing a sentence of up to six months in jail if a person breaks into a computer system without legal authority. On Tuesday, Melbourne's The Age newspaper ran a story saying American...
[August 7, 2002, 9:39]
Global Hell hacker to plead guilty, Part I
News And Chad Davis of Wisconsin, 20, a co-founder of gH known as mindsphar, was sentenced to six months in jail for defacing the US Army's Web site. As a result of his plea agreement, Gregory could face a jail sentence of up to five years and be fined...
[March 30, 2000, 16:20]
A Year Ago: Global Hell hacker to plead guilty
News And Chad Davis of Wisconsin, 20, a co-founder of gH known as mindsphar, was sentenced to six months in jail for defacing the US Army's Web site. As a result of his plea agreement, Gregory could face a jail sentence of up to five years and be fined...
[March 30, 2001, 6:04]
Law makes Scotland attractive to Net paedophiles, says expert
News The three appeal court judges rejected the view that child pornography is a "victimless crime", but advised that the downloading of indecent photos for "personal gratification" should not necessitate a jail sentence of more than nine to 12 months...
[October 24, 2001, 10:08]
Blaster writer faces jail
News Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teen who admitted to writing the Blaster virus, is now facing a three-year jail sentence and a bill for $626,000. Parson's lawyers, however, are asking for a six-month prison term, according to reports, with another six...
[January 26, 2005, 12:50]
US Report: Commerce subcommittee passes 'CDA II'
News Violators would face fines of up to $50,000 (£30,500) and up to six months in jail. If passed by the full House, the bill could become law after going to a conference committee to be fully reconciled with the so-called CDA II bill that passed the...
[September 18, 1998, 9:50]
Judge upholds COPA injunction
News Violators would face up to six months in jail and up to $50,000 (£30,000) in fines. But the law has never been enforced because the ACLU-led coalition filed a legal challenge to it in November. While saying Congress should try again to somehow curb...
[February 2, 1999, 9:10]
Internet child pornographer gets 35 years
News An Internet paedophile was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in jail for the live broadcast of pornographic images of a schoolgirl over the Web. The Child Protection Act now states that the sentence for possession of illegal Internet content rose from...
[January 19, 2001, 10:51]
Software pirate jailed
News A man has been sentenced to 18 months in an American jail and had his computer equipment seized for distributing pirated software worth up to $120,000. Police reportedly found that thousands of illegal versions of programs had been downloaded from...
[January 11, 2005, 10:50]
French army takes aim at Apple's AirPort
News The device uses the same 2.4GHz wave band reserved by the French military, meaning an iBook user surfing the Web near an army unit could end up scrambling defence force communications -- and thus risk a 29,000-euro (£18,600) fine and six months in...
[September 29, 1999, 9:25]
Singaporeans warned not to text and drive
News The act is similar to using the mobile phone while driving, and so can result in a penalty of up to $1,000 (£361) or a jail term of up to six months, or both. Text messaging while driving is an offence in Singapore, a police spokesman has warned.
[August 29, 2003, 10:20]
Economic turmoil sees rise in online scams
News Meanwhile, "no one is going to jail over it". For instance, there has been a marked increase in money-mule recruitment scams for people to transfer funds online between countries, and other illegal work-related spam in recent months, security firm...
[November 21, 2008, 8:22]
Siberian coal mine digs out FreeBSD funding
News Kamp is known in FreeBSD circles for, among other things, his work on the Jail facility which provides the ability to partition the operating system environment, while maintaining the simplicity of the UNIX "root" model.
[June 18, 2004, 14:35]
Jail sentences for warez gang
News Members of a French group that sold illegally copied software were fined 40,000 euros and sentenced to prison terms of up to six months. A 29-year-old local government worker was given the most severe sentence of 6 months in prison.
[February 18, 2002, 16:00]
