Volume IV

Issue : 9: May 5, 2006

• Penalties Imposed for Cyberspace Bullying
• European Union Expected to Adopt Anti Piracy Anti Counterfeiting Legislation
• BitTorrent User Hit With $35,000 Default Judgment
• Judge Bars Civil Servant from being Fired for Web Surfing
• U.S. Supreme Court Seeks Opinion of Justice Department in Microsoft Appeal
• EBay User Sentenced to Prison for Threats against eBay Executives
• Increased Reward for Employees Who Report Illegal Software Use
• Jury Awards Memory Chip Designer Rambus $306.5m (U.S.) in Patent Verdict
• Supreme Court of Canada Affirms the Paramount Importance of Privacy

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EBay User Sentenced to Prison for Threats against eBay Executives

Florin Horicianu, a disgruntled Romanian entrepreneur and naturalized U.S. citizen, traveled to Romania to recruit new eBay members by holding classes on how the service works. Ebay was running a program that paid up to $45 per recruit, and Horicianu claimed that eBay owed him as least $7,200 for his recruitment activities that it had refused to pay. This refusal was due to the company’s skepticism about the large number of accounts being opened from Romanian Internet cafes.

Horicianu was sentenced to five months in jail and five months of electronic monitoring after sending threats of violence to both eBay’s CEO and its founder through email.

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