Jury convicts man in DMCA case

By Andrew Raff on September 24, 2003 1:45 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

News.com reports: Jury convicts man in DMCA case

A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial law, according to a U.S. attorney's office.

The Los Angeles jury found 38-year-old Thomas Michael Whitehead guilty on Friday of selling hardware that could access DirecTV satellite broadcasts without paying for them, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

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