Another software pirate heads off to the clink.
From ZDNet:
An Australian resident who headed the notorious DrinkorDie software piracy gang has been jailed in the US.
The British-born man, Hew Griffiths, had been living in Bateau Bay, New South Wales, before his extradition to face trial in the US earlier this year.
Griffiths has now been sentenced to 51 months on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. However, with the time he has already spent incarcerated in an Australian detention centre fighting extradition, only 15 months of his sentence remain, reports say.
“Whether committed with a gun or a keyboard — theft is theft,” US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said in a statement.
When extradited in February 2007, Griffiths was initially facing a 10-year prison term and a $500,000 (£250,183) fine should he have been handed down the maximum sentence by US authorities.
[tags]DrinkorDie, Software Piracy, Computer Crime[/tags]
