NODE 507fdb0fMIT sysop faces piracy charges.
Alexander Chislenko <sasha@cs.umb.edu>Fri, 8 Apr 94 14:27:59 PDT
Today's Boston Globe has an article on a 20yo MIT student
David LaMacchia who 'enabled Internet users around the globe
to pirate more than a million dollars worth of copyrigthed software'.
David 'faces a possible jail term and fines of up to $250,000'.
David's scheme involved usage of anonymous remailers [?] in Finland.
The article starts on the front page with a big color picture of David
in his computer room.
Here's a repsonse to the case I found oncomp.org.eff.talk:
NODE 7b4b2ac8Re: MIT sysop faces piracy charges.
sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)Sat, 9 Apr 94 10:31:01 PDT
For those of you with WWW access, there is an article with much more
technical detail available from http://the-tech.mit.edu in the April
8th issue of The Tech; they also have press releases from the DA, MIT,
as well as the indictment and the response which was posted.
If the messages in the indictment, do in fact, come from the accused,
then he's got a bunch of explaining to do...
- Bill