Guilty plea for eBay pirate

By John Borland, CNET News.com
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 09:34 AM

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to selling pirated copies of movies on eBay, in the first such criminal copyright case brought by federal prosecutors.

According to the Department of Justice, 20-year-old Andre Pnewski testified that he downloaded the films from the eDonkey file-trading service and sold them on CDs through eBay. He was sentenced to six months of home detention with electronic bracelet monitoring and must pay US$7,170 in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America.


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I heard that there another company coming into market with auction website. I believe its www.ebids.com
Posted by Mike Wal on Saturday, March 06 2004 09:33 AM

Its always good to have a rival for ebay.
Posted by Steve Phil on Saturday, March 06 2004 09:35 AM


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