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Pirate Bay Founder on Trial Next Month Facing Societal Damage Claims

Earlier this month prosecutor Henry Olin of the International Public Prosecution Office in Stockholm announced that Gottfrid Svartholm had been charged with several hacking related offenses including serious fraud, attempted aggravated fraud, and aiding...

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Monday, April 29th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Pirate Bay Founder Charged With Hacking Companies and a Bank

In late August 2012, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden. Initially it was thought that Gottfrid had been taken to serve the prison time he was handed for his...

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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Former Anon spokesperson indicted for allegedly linking to stolen information

On Friday, a federal grand jury in Dallas indicted Barrett Brown, a former self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesperson, for trafficking “stolen authentication features,” as well as "access device fraud" and “aggravated identity theft.” Brown has been...

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Saturday, December 8th, 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

Camcording Movie Pirates Sentenced to Prison

Two members of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group were sentenced Friday to lofty prison terms. Sean Lovelady, 28, of California, was handed 23 months and had agreed to cooperate with the...

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Friday, November 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments