Operator of Massive For-Profit Software Piracy Website Pleads Guilty

Identity Theft
Phishing
Risk Management

Caused As Much As $20 Million in Losses to Software Industry

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The owner of one of the largest for-profit software piracy websites to operate in the United States has pleaded guilty to operating a software piracy website, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher for the Justice Department's Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced today.

Nathan Peterson, 26, of Antelope Acres, California, pleaded guilty in Alexandria, Virginia before U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis to two counts of criminal copyright infringement for selling pirated software over the Internet and through the mail. Peterson, who is scheduled to be sentenced on April 14, 2006, at 9 a.m., faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

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