The two leaders of a piracy group that offered an alternative market for counterfeit Android apps have pleaded guilty to copyright infringement charges, according to a prosecutors’ press release.
The two men are the first to be convicted for distributing pirated mobile apps, prosecutors said on Monday. Nicholas Narbone, 26, and Thomas Dye, 21, were part of the piracy group AppBucket, which allegedly distributed one million pirated apps from Aug. 2010 until Aug. 2012.
Prosecutors celebrated the guilty plea, saying Narbone and Dye “trampled on the intellectual property rights of others.” Read more…
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