The US government has secured the first conviction in its ambitious Operation Fastlink program designed to nab software pirates.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported that Jathan Desir, 26, has admitted to distributing pirated software worth up to $200,000. The University of Iowa student is said to have had 13,000 software titles up for grabs. FBI agents searched his home earlier this year.
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