| Another warez group member sentenced |
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| Friday, 26 September 2008 00:00 | |
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Steven Fiatarone, 55, of Spring Hill, Florida was sentenced today for his role in a warez ftp site called “TBR” (The Boxer Rebellion).
The DOJ said (criminal complaint here) that Fiatarone, aka “Kidzap” uploaded about 6,269 Files, and download 8,901 on “TBR” (The Boxer Rebellion).
The indictment also lists Fiatarone as being a member of a another site, “NRH” (Night Ranger Hangout), where he also uploaded40,487 and downloaded 23,572 files.
Among the programs Fiatarone uploaded was Pro/Concept, a product design engineering program, and ColdFusion MX version 6.0.1, an Internet application development program from Adobe Systems.
Steven Fiatarone was sentenced to 3 years probation and was also fined US$2,000 in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Earlier we reported a co-defendant, Robert Hardick, aka “tcut” was also sentenced to three years probation for his role in the copyright infringement conspiracy.
Another user of the site Eli El, aka “conq” was not so lucky, he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for criminal copyright infringement., |