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87 Months in Prison for Copyright Infringement: Fair Sentence or Utter Madness?

Following an investigation carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted by Microsoft and the BSA, a man from Baltimore is just beginning a very long stretch behind...

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Sunday, June 9th, 2013 Net News No Comments

MPAA Lawyer’s Computer Account Used in Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Case

Last month Swedish prosecutor Henry Olin announced that following a lengthy investigation, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm had been charged in connection to his alleged hacking of an IT company affiliated with the government....

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Saturday, May 4th, 2013 Net News No Comments

IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group “Sysop” Jailed 40 months

September last year IMAGiNE stopped distributing new films via their private BitTorrent tracker UnleashTheNet. As IMAGiNE was one of the Internet’s leading BitTorrent release groups, their absence quickly led to rumors that the group...

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Friday, November 30th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them

The February 2012 “Superseding Indictment” document, which lays out the Grand Jury charges against Megaupload, runs to 90-pages long and contains dozens of allegations of illegal behavior against the operators of the now-shuttered file-hosting...

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments

Alleged Cannibal Cop Faces Hacking Charge – The Computer Kind

A New York City cop who arrested Thursday for being part of a conspiracy to kidnap, rape, cook and eat women is being charged, in part, with violating computer crime laws for using a...

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Thursday, October 25th, 2012 Net News No Comments