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Three sentenced for ‘warez’ activities
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service
May 19, 2006
Three U.S. men have been sentenced to jail or home confinement for their participation in so-called warez online piracy groups, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
These are the first federal criminal sentences for members of pre-release music groups resulting from Operation FastLink, an ongoing U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation crackdown against organized piracy groups allegedly responsible for most of the initial illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music on the Internet.
