A former NASA engineer , who pleaded guilty to conspiracy copyright infringement scheme , led by two Chinese citizens sentenced to probation Wednesday .
U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark remember Cosburn Wedderburn , 40 years old, his substantial assistance , the federal authorities to investigate the website called "Crack 99 , " selling pirated , industrial -level access control mechanisms , has been " cracking " or bypass software .
" Stark said:" I do not intend to his imprisonment , sentencing Wedderburn previous year probation and 100 hours of community service.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ed McAndrew agree Wedderburn Windsor plant , Maryland, is not worth the prison time, saying, Wedderburn now understand that software piracy is not a victimless crime .
" I think his prosecution sends a message , " McAndrew told the judge . "I think this point has been made ."
Authorities say , Wedderburn 12 to buy pirated software , pay $ 1800 more than one million U.S. dollars worth of goods, Li Xiang , June was sentenced to 12 years of Chinese nationals.
Defense attorney Dennis Boyle says , Wedderburn , who worked in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center , also ran his own computer business on the side of the project , and did not try to profit from pirated software , but " just wanted to do his job better ."
Before being sentenced , Wedderburn government and his family an apology and said that he and federal agents arrested, he quickly to cooperate.
"I'm sorry , what did I do , I do not want to judge this failure to define who I am, " he said.
Earlier this year, Stark sentenced a former scientist for the Kentucky government contractors a year in federal prison , one day after he pleaded guilty to software piracy planned conspiracy . Prosecutors say Wronald best Li Xiang America's largest customers.
Authorities say the former chief scientist MPD best in Owensboro , Kentucky , who was at the Naval Surface Warfare Center , the use of pirated software working MPD involved in several projects, including the "Patriot" missile components used and the cathode weather radar systems, military helicopters.
Last year, authorities charged Xiang Li Jun Li Yan and co- defendant , conspiracy, copyright infringement , smuggling, wire fraud , interstate transportation of stolen goods and other crimes .
Li Xiang , aged 36, Chengdu, China , pleaded guilty in January conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit wire fraud . Xiang Li 's lawyer said at the time as a result of plea bargain for his client , as well as those on spring Yan Li , who is still in China , all remaining charges will be dismissed.
Prosecutors said the defendant copy and distribute Xiang Li was arrested recently in 2011 to Saipan undercover posing as customers in order to meet more than 150 manufacturers of copyright protected software .
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