Warez.... finally Busted???

[Jenny]

I found this article and thought it would be intereting for ppl to read about Software Pirate and how the government is taking action.

Australian software pirate to serve 4 years in US jail, court rules
Warez leader Hew Griffiths, extradited to the US from Australia, is sentenced to 51 months in prison on a copyright infringement charge.
The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Hew Raymond Griffiths, 44, was extradited to the U.S. from Australia in February, and in April, he pleaded guilty to two copyright-related charges in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. Griffiths, a British national, was the long-time leader of the DrinkOrDie software piracy network and an elder in the underground Internet piracy community, known as the warez scene, the DOJ said. He faced a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a US$500,000 fine for the charges.

Griffiths "became one of the most notorious leaders of the underground Internet piracy community by orchestrating the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyrighted material," Alice Fisher, assistant attorney general at the DOJ, said in a statement.

[eXg. Frag///aster]

any one get a hold of his hard drive before he went under.... lol.