California Man Pleads Guilty to Xbox Tampering
A Reuters newswire article by Lisa Baertlein, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
A co-owner of a Hollywood video game store that caters to celebrity clients on Wednesday pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to violate federal copyright laws by selling Xbox video game consoles modified to play pirated games.More here.
Jason Jones, a co-owner of ACME Game Store, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Los Angeles. His business partner, Jonathan Bryant, has signed a plea agreement and is scheduled to plead guilty to a conspiracy count on Monday, prosecutors said.
Jones pleaded guilty, and Bryant agreed to plead guilty, to one felony count of conspiring to traffic in a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system, conspiring to infringe on a valid copyright for financial gain, and willfully infringing a copyrighted work by reproducing and distributing pirated works worth more than $1,000.
posted by Fergie @ 5/10/2006 06:58:00 PM
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