Pirate Site Owner Gets 7 Years In Prison

In another piracy bust up, Nathan Peterson, the owner of a software piracy website called iBackups.net, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, after he was arrested for selling copyrighted software at a huge discount on his site. A US district court has ordered Peterson, the owner of the pirate site, to pay more than $5.4 million for two counts of copyright infringement for illegally copying and selling more than $20 million in software.

This case, deemed by the Justice Department and industry officials as one of the largest case involving Internet software piracy ever prosecuted, follows close on the heels of the Danny Ferrer case, where Ferrer had pleaded guilty to copyright charges in connection with multi million dollar sales of pirated software and was sentenced to six years in prison.

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