Sam Bankman-Fried has been sent to jail until October for tampering with a witness. His ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison is assisting the government and he has been trying to discredit her with leaks.
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Hacker Gary Bowser from the infamous Team-Xecuter Nintendo piracy group has been released early from prison. However, he will likely be paying off fines to Nintendo for the rest of his life.
The UK government looks set to compromise with backbench rebels that wanted personal liability and jail terms added to the Online Safety Bill. Previously, the maximum penalty was a fine on revenues.
Conservative Party rebels are trying to add an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would see senior managers at tech firms receive jail terms if they don't implement measures to protect kids.
A proposed amendment to India's Cinematograph Act suggests that camcorder pirates in India should face up to three years in prison and pay fines up to $14,000 if they distribute copyrighted content.
Samsung's vice chairman has been sentenced to five years in jail by a South Korean court for a slew of financial crimes. His downfall is the latest bit of bad press that the company has received.
One of Apple's ex-employees has been found guilty of selling confidential info to Apple's suppliers who would later send some cash the employee's way. He confessed and entered a plea agreement.
We have seen Microsoft's Surface show up in many places but jail is certainly a new one but that's the case in Dayton, Ohio where a Surface has been installed for video visitation.
Peter Sunde, co-founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Sweden following almost two years on the run, after being sentenced to prison for copyright violations.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was officially denied bail today and will remain in jail in New Zealand to face charges of online piracy by the US government in connection with Megaupload's shutdown.
Remember when defacing a website was the big news back in the day? Crackers would frequently put their logo or an amusing (or not so amusing) message on a site to gain "street cred" in...
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today. The news first surfaced from founder Peter Sunde who used Twitter to break...
In the most serious cases, British motorists caught talking on a hand-held mobile phone or sending a text while driving could be charged with dangerous driving, which carries a two-year maximum sentence and an unlimited...
A New York judge has sentenced 28-year-old Todd Moeller to a 27-month term and fined him more than $180,000 after he pleaded guilty earlier this year for his part in a spamming operation that sent...
Husband and wife, Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, have been sentenced to five years in prison and to over $25 million in fines for their role in a Microsoft software reselling scheme run...
A US man has pleaded guilty to charges of writing and distributing a Trojan horse designed to steal usernames and passwords. Richard C Honour, 31, faces a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000...
A German court has sentenced a 42-year-old Turkish software dealer to two years and 11 months in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses. The man was arrested in June 2006 by German...
A Korean executive at Samsung Electronics has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time in the United States in connection with a global price-fixing conspiracy, according to the government. Young Hwan Park, president of...
Hong Kong newspaper The Standard reports on what seems to be the world's first case of a BitTorrent movie pirate being sent to jail. (Others have been jailed for related crimes.) After losing his appeal...
The media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders says Yahoo gave Chinese authorities information that helped track down a journalist who wrote an e-mail about press restrictions. A French media watchdog said Tuesday...
Four Britons were jailed on Friday for being part of a global gang described as "Robin Hoods" who stole expensive software from rich companies and gave it away for free over the Internet. The group,...
A North Carolina man was sentenced to nine years in prison for sending hundreds of thousands of "spam" e-mail messages, Virginia prosecutors said on Wednesday. Jeremy Jaynes, of Raleigh, North Carolina was found guilty under...
A Chicago man pleaded guilty on Sept. 12 to wire fraud in connection with a scheme that used a phony Web site to steal credit card and account information from customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft...
'Speechless' recording artist says it's bad, dangerous and off the wall to turn fans into smooth criminals Music legend Michael Jackson has described himself as "speechless" that users of internet file sharing...
A man found guilty of selling mod chips on his website in breach of the draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been sentenced to five months imprisonment and a $28,500 fine. David Rocci,...
Government backs tougher penalties for those who deal in illegally copied material, including software, as part of a counterfeiting crackdown The House of Commons has agreed to bring in significant changes to...
An Austin, Texas, man could face up to $100,000 in fines and a year in jail after pleading guilty to distributing live concert recordings of actor Russell Crowe's band over the Web, U.S. attorneys said....
Careful coding the order of the day... "It was clear from dealing with the millennium date change issue that manufacturers and suppliers, despite knowing that there was scope for problems with...
