Game pirate gets four years jail time - briefly
(hx) 09:27 AM CET - Feb,12 2004
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GameSpot is reporting that Sean Michael Breen (California resident)
was
sentenced to 50 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Saundra
Armstrong. Breen's sentence follows his guilty plea and subsequent conviction
last July on two counts of copyright infringement and to three counts of mail
fraud.
As has been widely reported, the charges stemmed from Breen's multiyear
tenure as the self-styled leader of Razor1911, an infamous group of game hackers
responsible for an elaborate black-market operation. He is the last Razor1911
member to be sentenced--last June, a North Carolina-based member received an
18-month jail term on related charges. According to court documents and
his own confession, Breen and other Razor1911 members acquired, cracked, and
sold advance copies of Quake, Command & Conquer Red Alert, Terminal Velocity,
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and many other games. They acquired advance copies
of said titles by posing as reviewers for fictitious game magazines and having
them shipped to a derelict storefront address in Oakland.
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