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...that Jason Simpson had had a birthday party at his father's house the night before the murders, which is not true.) And according to the Los Angeles Times, Gerchas, a jewelry-store owner, has been sued at least 34 times in recent years for complaints including allegations of fraud and failure to pay creditors...
David M. LaMacchia, a 21-year-old senior at the Cambridge University, was charged last April with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly running a computer bulletin board that allowed people to make free copies of more than $1 million worth of copyrighted computer software...
David M. LaMacchia, a 21-year-old MIT senior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, was charged last April with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly running a computer bulletin board that allowed people to make free copies of more than $1 million worth of copyrighted computer software...
Stearns said that if LaMacchia was found guilty under the wire fraud statute, then many home computer users would also be engaging in criminal activity under that law by copy- ing commercial software...
Stearns ruled that "while the government'sobjective is a laudable one,...its interpretationof the wire fraud statute would serve tocriminalize the conduct of not only persons likeLaMacchia, but also the myriad of home computerusers who succumb to the temptation to copy even asingle software program for private...