Do the Crime: Do the Time
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section makes the statement loud and clear: internet crime will be punished. Take a look at three press releases on the department’s website for confirmation that if you do the crime you will do the crime even in regard to cybercrime:30-month Prison Term: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced that Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Frost was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of 40,000 to Bill O’Reilly.com and 10,000 to the University of Akron, and a special assessment of 200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. Frost previously appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli on May 26, 2010, at which time he pleaded guilty to a two-count Information, filed on May 14, 2010, which charged Frost with causing damage to a protected computer system and possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices.18-month Prison Term: Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. “EBK”, 20, of Newark, Delaware, and Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a. “Slacker”, 28, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, were sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to disrupt service at Comcast corporation’s website, on May 28 and 29, 2008, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Lewis pleaded guilty to the charge on February 24, 2010. Nebel pleaded guilty on June 21, 2010. In addition to the prison time, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Kelly ordered the defendants to each pay restitution in the amount of 89,578.13. Black’s case was transferred to the Western District of Washington where he was sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay restitution.15-Month Prison Term: United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Derick Breski, 43, of Roseville, California was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 15 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for criminal copyright infringement. He pleaded guilty on August 13, 2010. Between November 2009 and March 2010, Breski sold copyrighted software such as Adobe, Autocad, Rosetta Stone, and software from Microsoft. He obtained copies of the software illegally by downloading it from file-sharing services on the Internet. He then created copies of the illegally downloaded software and sold those copies to customers.
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