DrinkOrDie Software Pirate Goes To Prison
Source: Newsbytes
L33tdawg: Interestingly, DietCoke (of TechFocus fame), actually used to work on the same floor as this guy while he was at Symantec. Small world eh?
A figure in the software pirating group DrinkOrDie has been sent to prison for nearly three years, the first of many members of the "warez" organization that will be sentenced for their roles in an operation that caused millions of dollars in damages.
In U.S. District Court Thursday, Barry Erickson, 35, of Eugene, Ore., was sentenced to 33 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release.
Under a plea agreement, Erickson, once a systems engineer with Internet security firm Symantec Corp., pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
Erickson acted as a supplier for the loosely-knit, global operation, providing new Symantec software to be sold illegally on the Internet after its copyright-protection schemes were removed.
