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Albert Bryndza, 32, from New York, Seth Kleinberg, 26, from Los Angeles, and Jeffrey Lermanm, 20, a student from Long Island have all pleaded guilty on charges against them for illegally distributing thousands of Xbox and PlayStation games. Each man was involved in a different part of the set-up, with Kleinberg cracking codes allowing the discs to be copied, Lerman editing the software so it could fit onto a singe disc and Bryndza built servers needed to store all the software they had made available to download.
Strangely, they each claim to have made no money from their activities, saying that they only did it to try and be the first to get the games onto the internet. Prosecutors on the case have dubbed them the Robin Hoods of the internet.” The FBI had been working on the investigation for a year, with difficulties coming from hard to crack encrypted chat rooms, which the men used to communicate.
Proving that piracy doesn’t pay, each man could face up to five years in prison, but this is likely to be much less as they have no previous charges.
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