The creators of the site with pirated Android applications face 5 years in prison

Two creators of the site with pirated Android applications have pleaded guilty to copyright infringement, writes Mashable. 26-year-old Nicholas Narbon and 21-year-old Thomas Dye were accused of involvement in the AppBucket site, through which from August 2010 to August 2012 more than a million counterfeit applications were distributed.

AppBucket was an alternative Android app store that allowed users to download pirated versions of paid apps for free. The store as a whole copied Google Play, offering similar features such as update notifications, search, and lists of the best apps. Damage from the distribution of a million pirated applications via AppBucket was estimated at 700 thousand dollars.

The FBI shut down AppBucket and SnappzMarket, another similar pirate market, in August 2012. Prosecutors indicted Narbonu, Dai and two others on January 24 of this year. Now Narbona and Dai face five years in prison, meetings on their affairs will be held on July 8 and June 12, respectively.
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The damage from the activities of SnappzMarket is estimated at an even greater amount: 1.7 million dollars, writes The Verge. However, the 22-year-old creator of this resource, Cody Peterson, is not mentioned in today's press release of the American Justice Ministry, so apparently the investigation is still underway regarding him.

“Copyright infringement discourages smart, innovative people from using their talents to create something that the rest of society can use and enjoy,” says Sally Yeats, the northern district attorney, “Theft is theft — regardless of whether the property is intellectual or material - and we will continue to pursue those who steal copyrighted material. ”