Topic: COMPUTER - on August 22, 2002 at 12:22:28 AM CEST
Former MIT admin gets three year jail term for software piracy
A computer hacker has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for using Massachusetts Institute of Technology computers to distribute stolen software programs, games, movies and music titles. Christopher Tresco, 24, of Boston, who prosecutors said was a ringleader in the international software piracy group DrinkOrDie, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Federal authorities in the Virginia court have prosecuted 13 people targeted in ``Operation Buccaneer,'' a U.S. Customs Service investigation into international copyright violations.
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