MIT sysop faces piracy charges.
Today's Boston Globe has an article on a 20yo MIT student David LaMacchia who 'enabled Internet users around the globe to pirate more than a million dollars worth of copyrigthed software'. David 'faces a possible jail term and fines of up to $250,000'. David's scheme involved usage of anonymous remailers [?] in Finland. The article starts on the front page with a big color picture of David in his computer room. Here's a repsonse to the case I found oncomp.org.eff.talk:
For those of you with WWW access, there is an article with much more technical detail available from http://the-tech.mit.edu in the April 8th issue of The Tech; they also have press releases from the DA, MIT, as well as the indictment and the response which was posted. If the messages in the indictment, do in fact, come from the accused, then he's got a bunch of explaining to do... - Bill
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