Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here


		User name	Password

		Not registered yet? Register here. Lost your password? Click here.

Browse by topic

News

New Jersey man sentenced in warez case

12 February 2009 13:24 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus | 3 comments

A New Jersey man who plead guilty to Conspiring To Commit Criminal Copyright Infringement last year has been sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service. Under the name Metaslug, Richard Mendez supplied software to several groups on the warez scene, including the infamous FairLight release group.

Mendez was arrested and prosecuted as part of Operation Higher Education, the largest component of the international law enforcement initiative called Operation Fastlink. Operation Fastlink resulted in searches and seizures being conducted in a dozen countries.

Earlier this month the last defendant from Operation Higher Education plead guilty in Federal Court. He has yet to be sentenced.

Permalink to this article

Prolific warez scene group retires (30 October 2009)

Twenty jailed in Italy for selling pirate CDs on eBay (29 April 2009)

« Previous news article
FCC turns down 123 requests to stop analog service on February 17

Next news article »
Qtrax gets last major label onboard for free, legal P2P

Post your comment

Discuss this article!
windsong (Junior Member) 12 February 2009 15:24
Always seems like the first one to go under is a supplier. [ + quote]
attar (AfterDawn Addict) 12 February 2009 15:51
*Quote:* Operation Higher Education "Operation Pull my Willie" more like. Just like when those sober looking boys in blue, sit around at a press conference trying to convince the taxpayers that the drugs they have confiscated will make the streets safer for more than .5 milliseconds - details tonight on Action/Nightly/Doppler-6000 news. [ + quote]
21Q (Senior Member) 12 February 2009 18:06
Hmm very interesting. As I live in this state yet I never heard of this. But this I guess he deserves it for helping a piracy ring. [ + quote]