Narcotics Seller to Spend 20 Years behind Bars
	The concept of online pharmacies sounds pretty attractive because patients could receive medical advice without having to visit the doctor. However, Jorge Alan Rodriguez Sanchez took the online pharmacy idea to another level: he established an illegal drug store online in order to sell all kinds of prescription based drugs, including Xanax, Valium, Oxycontin and Vicodin, obviously, without prescription. For those of you who don&# ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Racist Blogger Arrested in Singapore
	Posting entries on a blog is usually a pleasant activity and some people managed to do a real business out of it. However, publishing messages on a blog sometimes may bring you more trouble than you have ever expected according to recent reports concerning a blogger who may go to jail due to comments posted on his blog. The 24-year-old Chinese man who put racist comments on his blog may spend up to three years in prison, the Sing ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

D.O.M. Team Hackers Busted in Spain
	Five members reportedly from the D.O.M. Team hacking group got busted in Spain as part of an investigation of the local police, FOXNews.com informed today. According to the report, two of the suspects were minors, aged 16. "The others are 19 or 20," the same publication adds. It seems like the group of websites attacked no less than 21,000 websites, some of them belonging to the government. However, there's no word ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Mom May Spend 20 Years in Prison
	The short story so far goes something like this: a 13-year-old girl who met a 16-year-old boy on the social networking service MySpace fell in love with him after chatting on the website. The 49-year-old mom of the boy got involved into the relationship and posed as her son while chatting with the girl. After several days of chatting, the mother, who continued to claim she was her son, told the girl she wanted to break up with he ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Romanian Pirate Goes Behind Bars
	Although it happens in various countries in the world, a Romanian pirate thought it could never happen to him: Kiss Adalbert Daniel, 28-year-old, was found guilty of possession with the purpose of distribution of pirated materials and received a sentence of five years and six months in jail. Beside that, the pirate has to pay huge fines, namely more than 50,000 euros to Microsoft and 77,000 euros to Autodesk Inc. What's i ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

US Software Pirate Jailed
	The fight against pirates who simply ignore the copyright laws records one more win as David M. Fish, a 26-year-old man living in Woodbury, Conn., has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after he was involved in multiple illegal activities. According to a statement signed by the Department of Justice, David Fish distributed illegal copies of copyright protected material on the web to hundreds of users. "From approximately ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Amy Winehouse Forgets About Birthday Boy Blake
	Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil turned 26 yesterday - however, his beehived, crack-loving, Grammy-winning wife did not bother to grace her incarcerated better half with her presence, leaving Blaaaaake to entertain himself and find solace in his own jail cell at London's Pentonville prison. Which means one of two things: either Amy has finally seen the light and realized that her husband (who is currently in ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pro-Anorexia Websites to Become Illegal
	Because more and more girls are tempted to step into the pro-anorexia side, the French government tries to stop the phenomenon by promoting new laws that would reduce the number of websites encouraging this matter. According to Reuters, the pages or blogs supporting anorexia may get two years in jail and a fine of approximately 30,000 for the so-called "incitement to excessive thinness by publicising of any kind." Moreo ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 16:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Amy Wino & Husband in Big Trouble
	Amy Wino's private life has never been a bed of roses, and it's been taking an increasingly heavier toll on the singer the longer she's been left to battle with her documented drug addiction outside rehab. However, Amy's drug use and her notoriously stubborn "no, no, no" said to receiving professional treatment are not the artist's only worry, as increasingly bad news has been reaching her from ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Blaaaaaaake Sells Out His Wife for Crack!
	Amy Wino's Blaaaaake is such a drama queen. I mean, really. This guy is slowly trying to steal the spotlight from his beehived wife, and is doing quite a good job of it too. A couple of days ago, Blake Fielder-Civil (also known as "Bad Blake", also known as the manipulative druggie who is married to jazz diva Amy Winehouse) took a heroin overdose laced with an unknown chemical in prison and almost died. Heroin in p ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 11:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Digital Bomb Creator Goes Behind Bars
	Yung-Hsun Lin, 51-year-old, from Montville, New Jersey, will get an unexpected holiday behind bars, as he has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Yung-Hsun was hired as a sys admin at Medco Health Solution, and just after he found out that he might lose his job, he decided to build a computer virus and to deploy it on the company's computers. The infection, which was first scheduled for April 2004, "was designed to wipe ou ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One-Month Holding in Prison Limit for Bloggers
	The cases of bloggers being held for what they have written are too many to be looked over and, to be honest, are quite common in the countries where human rights are often breached. The latest case is that of Fouhad al-Fahran, held in the conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia for over a month. As per usual, a rights group has began voicing and now all the dirt in the world is being gathered in case their demands are not me ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ABN Amro Clients Involved in Hack Attacks
	The Dutch police today announced that it had arrested 14 people suspected to be involved in several phishing scams, conducted by Russian and Ukrainian hackers. The 14 persons put their ABN Amro accounts at hackers' disposal and allowed them to transfer stolen money into their accounts. The illegal funds, which were stolen through phishing scams, were then redirected to other countries. The phishing scams were based on fake ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kiefer Sutherland Spends Christmas in the Clink
	I will always remember Kiefer Sutherland as a melancholic musketeer in a movie in which he starred long before he became a household name by playing Jack Bauer on the hit TV series "24". His character was drunk for about half the movie, and I always imagined he was a great actor for faking it so well. But judging from the latest news, it seems that he may have not been faking it all along – or maybe not all the time. We ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pedophile Hacker Gets 110 Years in Prison!
	Yep, you've read it right, a pedophile hacker received a sentence of 110 years in prison after he was found guilty of hacking MySpace accounts and harassing underage girls. In fact, all the hacker wanted was pornographic content but he managed to cause an extremely high fear after he threatened the girls with all kinds of messages. If you think this is enough to receive such a major sentence, you should know the investig ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 08:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virtual Soap-Opera: Love Triangle, Crimes And Years In Prison
	48-year-old Thomas Montgomery will spend his next 20 years in prison, after he pleaded, in August, guilty of murdering his 22-year-old colleague, Brian Barrett, out of jealousy. At least, this is what the investigators told AP. But here's the entire and complicated story: Thomas Montgomery (the killer), who was 48 years old, pretended to be an 18-year-old Marine and connected to Internet chat rooms in order to communicate ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Egyptian Authorities Out for Blogger Blood
	How would it feel if you heard that anything you wrote on your blog could send you to jail? Imagine how Abdel Karim Suleiman felt when he was charged with insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak in eight of his blog articles written since 2004. He was also the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for Internet writings and was condemned to four years behind bars. Back in February, the verdict was widely condemned by the hu ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Teenager Arrested For Stealing Virtual Furniture
	Although I don't see any reason for stealing virtual furniture, a 17-year-old boy did this and he's now arrested by the Dutch police after being accused of this illegal activity. It all happened on the Habbo Hotel platform, a service that allows registered members to create their own rooms and decorate them with virtual furniture. The furniture can be bought by the consumers with real money and as Reuters reported, the ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Interested In Buying Porn Using Your Employer's Money?
	Bradley Gilbert, a 20-year-old man from Bethlehem, was sent to prison for money fraud after he used his ex-employer's bank account to access pornographic content, The Morning Call reports today. In case you're saying this is no big deal, you should know that Mr. Gilbert spent no less than $3,196 on the adult pages on which he conducted no less than 107 operations. The entire fraud was recorded between May and October 20 ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hacker Facing a 60-Year Prison Sentence
	John Kenneth Schiefer, a 26-year-old American security expert from Los Angeles, faces a sentence of 60 years in prison and a fine of $1.75 million after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and others, The Register reported today. The hacker, who used nicknames such as "Acid" and "Acidstorm", managed to break into approximately 250,000 computers and install software to get financial information ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 06:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How About Spending 2 Years in Jail, Spammer?
	Todd Moeller, a 28-year-old man from New Jersey, received a sentence of 27 months in prison after he was found guilty of sending spam messages to 1,2 million AOL consumers, Reuters reported. It seems like the man made a deal with a government informer to advertise a security software solution which could bring him no less than 50 percent of the revenues. But that's not all. Moeller talked with the informer through instant me ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hardcore Pornographic Websites Leading to Prison
	Two of the biggest spammers on the web were sent to prison by a federal judge after they caused a lot of problems to numerous Internet consumers and to AOL. In case you missed the news, Jeffrey A. Kilbride from California and James R. Schaffer from Arizona used spam messages to promote hardcore pornographic websites over the web. According to security company Sophos, the emails sent by the two spammers caused no less than 600,000 ... [read more >>]
	15 October 2007, 08:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Prisons Will Jam All Mobile Phone Use
	There are some places where mobile phone use is simply unacceptable. Prisons would be one of them, this being a good enough reason for the introduction of a mobile phone jamming technology. A 12-month trial conducted in New Zealand prisons has just been successfully completed, as the Minister of Corrections, Vodafone and Telecom say. Mobile phone signal blocking is one feature that has high chances of being useful under many o ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hot on YouTube: Prisoners Dancing on Michael Jackson's Thriller
	A new YouTube clip attracts an impressive amount of viewers as it shows more than 1,000 prisoners dancing on the Michael Jackson hit, Thriller. It all starts with some interesting zombie moves. It continues with amazing dancing moves made by the prisoners, all of them being dressed in orange prison suites. In the background you can hear: "cause this is thriller, thriller night / And no ones gonna save you from the beast abou ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beware: A Blogger Might Spend 12 Months in Prison!
	An interesting case was reported in Hong Kong where Olwan Lam, a blogger who wrote about pornography, might a face a sentence of 12 months in prison. In addition, he may have to pay for approximately HK$400.000. Why, you'll ask. Well, it all started when the blogger, being disappointed by the country's authorities who arrested a man for publishing links to pornography, decided to wrote on his own page about nudity and c ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Texans Arrested For Money Laundering
	Darrel Uselton, 40, and his uncle, Jack Usleton, 69, from Texas were both arrested after they were suspected for email spam campaigns meant to influence the stock market and allow them to earn money with ease. Security company Sophos said that the attackers received no less than $4.6 million from the spam campaign that was discovered when a Securities and Exchange Commission member received an unwanted email. The Texas Attorney G ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Four Months in Prison for a YouTube Clip
	An 18-year-old teenager has been sentenced to 4 months in prison after he filmed himself driving with approximately 120 miles per hour and posted the clips on the popular online video sharing service YouTube. The recordings were made with a cellphone and were created on a quite busy motorway from Fenwick Street, Burnley. According to The Daily Mail, the teenager was driving a Toyota MR 2 sports car that was actually belonging to ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another One Bites the Dust: Lindsay Lohan on Her Way to Jail
	The troubles keep coming at Lindsay Lohan, not because she might be terribly unfortunate, but because she's got trouble written all over her. For what is worth, Li-Lo stands a very big chance to serve time, just like her good friend Paris Hilton. Lohan messed it up really bad when – after a wild Memorial Day weekend – she got in her car and drove only as far as Sunset Blvd, where she crashed her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 convertible int ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris' First Post-Prison Interview – A Fiasco
	Paris Hilton made her first post-prison video appearance last night on CNN's "Larry King Live". The media had been stirring a real hype surrounding Paris and her release, and everyone wanted the see what the (self-called) reformed heiress had to say after her life changing experience. CNN capitalized on this and showed a countdown clock that headlined "Paris tells all". She didn't say it all, but she said e ... [read more >>]
	28 June 2007, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Was Going to Kill Herself in Prison
	As of yesterday, Paris Hilton is out of jail. That means we have our hands full once again. What should we pick first? Remember when Paris went to jail in the first place? She remained there for, like, only three days, then she was released to home detention. The media tackled the subject at the time, but the Paris saga was unfolding too rapidly to dwell only on one matter. But now that the saga is between seasons, any scrap is useful. ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Porn Pics = Five Years In Prison
	James Schaffer, Paradise Valley, Arizona and Jeffrey Kilbride, Venice, California, were both convicted by a federal judge, being accused of conspiracy, fraud, transportation of obscene materials and money laundering. Security company Sophos said that the two men sent spam messages to millions of users, most of the emails containing pornographic pictures and trying to promote adult webpages. It seems that no less than 600.000 cust ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Hilton's Post-Prison Interview
	Paris Hilton will be released from jail (damn!) this Tuesday, and all the major TV networks are fighting over her. The 26-year-old has served 23 days out of her 45-days sentence in the Los Angeles Century Regional Detention Center, but will be released early for good behavior. As her release date was getting closer, it seemed that ABC was in the front spot to land the first post-prison interview. The ABC executives relied on the fact that ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2007, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Porn Teacher Granted New Trial
	Julie Amero, the teacher who was convicted in January 2007 for showing pornographic pictures to her students, received a new trial today. The case was at least interesting: her PC was left unattended and opened pornographic images that were then viewed by the students. Although it wasn't a clear sign of ignorance, the teacher sustained that some malicious files infected the computer and opened the adult material without any ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Biggest Spammer in The History Arrested Today!
	The biggest spammer in the world, Robert Alan Soloway, was finally arrested today after the court charged him for mail fraud, email fraud, identity theft, money laundering and wire fraud. The 27-year-old man was the founder of Newport Internet Marketing, the company that was also used for spamming. Actually, he managed to send millions of spam messages through hacked computers that were then used as points for sending the unwante ... [read more >>]
	31 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Freddy Krueger Wannabe Slasher Gets Life
	The trial that ended yesterday with a verdict for life sentence is already generating a lot of talk on how much violence should be portrayed on the big screen and which are the limits that should never be crossed when depicting bloody and aggressive behavior. Of course, the topic is not new but, this time, the situation seems to incline the balance towards a more thorough and drastic censure of the movies we get to see on the sil ... [read more >>]
	06 April 2007, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia