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InternetNews
January 19, 2005
Roy Mark |
DOJ Scores First Criminal P2P Convictions The U.S. Department of Justice bagged its first-ever criminal convictions for peer-to-peer copyright theft Tuesday when two men arrested in last summer's Operation Digital Gridlock pleaded guilty.   |
InternetNews
August 25, 2004
Roy Mark |
DOJ Raids Private P2P Operation Authorities raided five residences and and an Internet service provider Wednesday morning in the first federal criminal enforcement action against private peer-to-peer networks. |
InternetNews
July 28, 2005
Roy Mark |
Warez Warriors Wrapped Up by Feds The Department of Justice's (DoJ) crackdown on large-scale piracy continued today with the indictments of eight individuals for criminal copyright infringement. The individuals were active in the online 'warez' scene. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Charge Five More in Warez Crackdown Five more individuals are facing criminal copyright charges as part of the Department of Justice's ongoing crackdown on warez dealers. |
InternetNews
May 26, 2005 |
Feds Strike Back at 'Sith' Bootleggers Nationwide raids roust distributors of bootleg "Star Wars" film. |
InternetNews
April 23, 2004
Roy Mark |
DOJ Strikes at Global Online Piracy Coordinated international raids seek to dismantle syndicates distributing pirated material. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2007
Roy Mark |
'Fastlink' Downs 50th Conspirator Feds continue law enforcement campaign targeting warez groups. |
InternetNews
February 21, 2007
Roy Mark |
Feds Finally Extradite Alleged Warez Kingpin Hew Raymond Griffiths, an alleged warez kingpin, appeared in a U.S. district court and was charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and criminal copyright infringement. |
InternetNews
May 22, 2006
Roy Mark |
Warez Dealers Headed to Jail The Department of Justice tightened the noose around warez dealers Friday with the first sentencing of individuals for their Internet music piracy activities. |
InternetNews
September 13, 2006
Roy Mark |
Another Sith Pirate Meets Force of Law Third member of Elite Torrents copyright theft ring pleads guilty to Star Wars movie theft. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Charge 10 More in Warez Wars Federal authorities continued their national crackdown on warez dealers this week, charging 10 more individuals with violating the No Electronic Theft Act. |
PC World
December 13, 2001
Todd R. Weiss |
Feds Crack Software Piracy Rings Two-year probe targeted international groups illegally distributing software, games, and movies online... |
InternetNews
March 9, 2005
Roy Mark |
Feds Bag Warez Convictions Key leaders of Internet piracy rings face prison sentences of 5 to 10 years. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2004
Roy Mark |
FBI Sting Targets P2P Operation DOJ launches first peer-to-peer criminal probe by targeting a network of Direct Connect users. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
InternetNews
August 30, 2005
Roy Mark |
L.A. Cracks Internet Warez Ring In the first criminal Internet file-sharing case brought in California, a 34-year-old former Los Angeles resident pleaded guilty to single felony count of grand theft. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2005
Roy Mark |
Attorney General Seeking Tougher IP Laws Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed new legislation today that would strengthen penalties for copyright infringement, expand intellectual property protection and add critical enforcement tools. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2005
Roy Mark |
Camcording Warez Dealer Bagged by Feds The Department of Justice announces its first arrests under a new law prohibiting recording movies in a theater. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2006
Roy Mark |
More Warez Dealers Head to Jail Operation FastLink, the two-year-old FBI undercover investigation targeting organized Internet piracy groups known as warez dealers, claimed two more pirates Wednesday. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2006
Roy Mark |
Pirates Still Sailing By IP Protection Efforts The United States continues to flex its powerful legal muscle when it comes to intellectual property protection but even the government admits the results have been mixed. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
Man Pays For Piracy With Jail Time In addition to jail time, Danny Ferrer faces $4.1M in restitution and forfeiture of a fleet of planes, boats and really nice cars for selling pirated software. |
InternetNews
October 13, 2005
Roy Mark |
Feds Bust Massive Piracy Scheme A federal grand jury indicted three San Francisco-area men Wednesday for their involvement in what the music industry calls the largest illegal CD manufacturing seizure in the United States. |
InternetNews
June 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
High Flying Software Pirate Grounded Illegal software dealer pleads guilty and agrees to forfeit airplanes, cars and boats. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2004
Roy Mark |
DoJ Nabs 103 in Online Crime Sweep Ashcroft says summer-long campaign known as Operation Web Snare reveals increasing internationalization of online crime. |
InternetNews
May 15, 2007
Roy Mark |
More Jail Time For Copyright Crooks? Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent legislation to Capitol Hill Monday that would increase jail time for repeat offenders of copyright laws. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2009 |
Software Pirate Gets 41 Months in Prison Virginia man incarcerated after years of selling phony Adobe software apps on eBay for years. |
InternetNews
September 11, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Software Pirate Fined, Going to Jail A California man was sentenced to 87 months, or more than seven years, in prison and ordered to repay $5.4 million in what federal prosecutors called the largest U.S. software piracy operation. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
David Miller |
International Child Pornography Ring Busted U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced on Wednesday that an international investigation has lead to more than two dozen arrests of people participating in an online child pornography ring. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2005
Roy Mark |
Hynix Cops Guilty Plea in DRAM Debacle Korean chipmaker agrees to third-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history in RAM chips price-fixing conspiracy. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
Jane Easter Bahls |
Hitting Hard Piracy laws just got tougher. |
InternetNews
November 26, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
ID Thieves Hit Federal Credit Unions, Consumers Sophisticated crooks are charged with filching funds from credit unions for the Senate, Navy and State Department while stealing millions from consumers' home equity lines of credit. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Panel Endorses P2P Criminal Penalties Judiciary subcommittee passes legislation sanctioning prison time for suspects caught trading 1,000 or more copyrighted files online. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2006
David Needle |
U.S. A.G.: Limits to Data it Can Collect U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez gave a big high five to the enforcement of intellectual property laws. |
InternetNews
October 17, 2006
Roy Mark |
International Recording Industry Hits File Sharers Illegal peer-to-peer file sharers are facing more than 8,000 copyright infringement lawsuits in 17 countries, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2004 |
Feds Launch P2P Child Porno Sweep Multi-agency probe results in arrests of individuals using file-sharing software to distribute images of child pornography. |
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2006
Roger O. Crockett |
Hauling In The Hollywood Hackers How undercover FBI agents nab the bootleggers who threaten the movie biz. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2004
Roy Mark |
Infineon Pleads Guilty to DRAM Price-Fixing The German chipmaker agrees to $160M fine... Other DRAM manufacturers under investigation, the DOJ says. |
Information Today
December 31, 2007
George H. Pike |
Congress Proposes to Enhance IP Enforcement and Penalties The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, H.R. 4279, proposes a number of steps to strengthen the enforcement of copyright, trademark, and patent laws and to increase criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2006
David Needle |
Another Guilty Plea in DRAM Price Fixing Scandal The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that a former executive of Elpida Memory, a large Japanese manufacturer of DRAM chips, agreed to plead guilty for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Feds Charge 28 in ID Theft Ring Agents at the U.S. Secret Service unmasked 28 people who thought they were safe behind anonymous identities and charged them in connection with alleged ID Theft activities. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2004
Michael Singer |
Infineon Execs Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing Four Infineon executives agreed to plead guilty to charges they conspired to fix prices in the computer memory sector, officials said Thursday. |
InternetNews
October 13, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Bust Craigslist Software Pirates Three alleged software pirates face criminal copyright infringement charges for selling illegal copies of popular software titles on Craigslist. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2006
Roy Mark |
DRAM Slam: Prison Time For Samsung Execs Three more executives in the dynamic random access memory chip industry are heading to prison for their roles in a global price-fixing conspiracy. |
InternetNews
March 1, 2006
Roy Mark |
Hynix Execs Head For Jail in DRAM Scandal Four Korean Hynix executives are heading to a U.S. jail for their roles in a global conspiracy to fix prices on dynamic random access memory, a key type of memory found in most PCs. |
InternetNews
October 14, 2008 |
President Signs Tough New Anti-Piracy Law President Bush on Monday signed into law the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act, which provides stiffer penalties for breaching intellectual property. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps Bill calls for criminal penalties of up to five years for willfully distributing copyrighted works. |
CIO
April 15, 2003
Sarah D. Scalet |
The Pirates Among Us The entertainment industry is battling the illegal distribution of copyrighted music and movie files -- and will stop at nothing to enlist your help. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2010 |
eBay Software Pirate Gets Jail Time A federal judge sends one crook up the river, but it's a drop in the bucket when it comes to the massive amount of piracy claimed by the software industry. |
InternetNews
October 21, 2005
Roy Mark |
P2P Outfit in False Ad Pinch The Federal Trade Commission won a temporary court order earlier this week to rein in the advertising practices of an Internet operation claiming "file-sharing is 100 percent legal." |
PC World
October 2004
Michael Desmond |
Sneaky Sharing Despite well-publicized wins by piracy foes, illegal digital music and movie trading continues to flourish in underground havens. |
