Members of two groups that illegally distributed copies...
Members of two groups that illegally distributed copies of copyrighted Android mobile applications pleaded guilty to engaging in separate efforts to distribute more than 1 million app copies, the Department of Justice said Tuesday night. Thomas Pace, of Oregon City,…
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Ore., pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. He’s to be sentenced July 9. DOJ claimed Pace and fellow members of the Appbucket Group illegally reproduced and distributed more than 1 million copies of Android apps, worth more than $700,000, between August 2010 and August 2012. Thomas Nye and Appbucket Group leader Nicholas Narbone pleaded guilty to the same charge in March, DOJ said. Kody Jon Peterson, of Clermont, Fla., pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. His sentencing date hasn’t been set. DOJ claimed Peterson and other members of the SnappzMarket Group illegally reproduced and distributed more than one million copies of Android apps, with a retail value of more than $1.7 million, between May 2011 and August 2012 (http://1.usa.gov/1eSiSWR). U.S. law enforcement authorities seized websites belonging to Appbucket and SnappzMarket, along with a third website, applanet.net, in August 2012.