Illonios Electronic Theft Articles And Cases

cybercrime.gov, Feb 28, 2006

Northern District of Illinois found Christian Morley of Salem, Massachusetts, guilty of conspiracy to infringe software copyrights

Software Pirate Guilty of Copyright Infringement in First NET Act Trial
On May 11, 2001, a federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois found Christian Morley of Salem, Massachusetts, guilty of conspiracy to infringe software copyrights. Morley was indicted last year along with 16 other defendants from across the United States and Europe for conspiring to infringe the copyright of more than 5,000 computer software programs available through a hidden Internet site located at a university in Quebec, Canada.

Nine Indicted in Chicago in $1 Million "Fastlane" Software Piracy Conspiracy (Feb. 16, 2001)
A former North Carolina man who was arrested last fall and eight new defendants across the United States who allegedly were associated with the underground software piracy group known as "Fastlane" were indicted on February 15, 2001, for pirating more than $1 million of copyrighted computer software, games, and movies through non-public Internet sites. All nine defendants were charged in a nine-count indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury in Chicago, where the investigation was conducted, Scott R. Lassar, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Kathleen McChesney, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced on February 16, 2001.