Pirates Beware

According to a recent article in CNET, a California man got seven years in jail for software piracy, the longest sentence to be handed down as yet. The man, Nathan Peterson, had sold software at extremely discounted rates through his Web site iBackups.net. The site came under investigation by the FBI in 2003, but was not shut down until February 2005. The court found that Peterson had sold over $20 million dollars of software illegally.