RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Warez 'Ringleader' Pleads Guilty In Software Piracy Case

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

See, this wouldn't happen if all software was open sourced! :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:49 PM
> To: MLUG discussion
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Warez 'Ringleader' Pleads Guilty In
> Software Piracy Case
> 
> 
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174822.html
> 
> NewsBytes (Washington Post)
> 27 February 2002
> 
> Warez 'Ringleader' Pleads Guilty In Software Piracy Case
> 
> By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes.
> 
> ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 2002 FEB 27 (NB) -- By Steven Bonisteel,
> Newsbytes. Federal law enforcement officials said today that an
> international sweep of groups trading in copyrighted software 
> online has
> netted its first guilty plea - from a man they say was a 
> ringleader in one
> of the Internet's oldest "warez" organizations.
> 
> Authorities said John Sankus Jr. of Philadelphia, Pa., 
> "co-leader of one
> of the oldest organized software piracy groups on the Internet," today
> entered a guilty plea in an Alexandria, Va., District Court 
> to one felony
> count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
> 
> U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty said Sankus, 28, was a key player 
> in a group of
> software pirates known as DrinkOrDie, which took pride in 
> posting online
> copies of new software applications as soon as - and 
> sometimes before -
> they were released by vendors.
> 
> Investigators said members of the group would crack 
> copyright- protection
> schemes before posting software on secret Internet servers so 
> that others
> could install the illegal downloads.
> 
> Sankus is to be sentenced May 17. Officials said a maximum 
> sentence would
> be five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
> 
> [snip]
> 
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