{"id":91191,"date":"2016-05-03T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91191"},"modified":"2016-05-03T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:40:42","slug":"android-pirates-guilty-of-illegally-distributing-r244543300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/91191-android-pirates-guilty-of-illegally-distributing-r244543300","title":{"rendered":"Android pirates guilty of illegally distributing R244,543,300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two founders of <strong>Applanet.com <\/strong>&#8211; Aaron Blake Buckley and Gary Edwin Sharp &#8211; have plead guilty to distributing over 4 million apps.<\/p>\n<p>This equates to over <strong>R244,543,300<\/strong> worth of pirated goods.<\/p>\n<p>This is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/conspirators-two-android-mobile-device-app-piracy-groups-plead-guilty-0\" target=\"_blank\">according to the US Department of Justice<\/a><\/strong> (DOJ), which said the men \u201cconspired to reproduce and distribute\u201d copyrighted Android apps from May 2010 to August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Applanet acted as a pirated form of the Google Play store, making various Android games and applications which\u00a0developers usually charged for available for free.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Sharp also lead another online piracy group \u2013 the SnappzMarket Group. This group was said to have helped distribute over a million pirated Android apps, with a total retail value of more than <strong>R16,851,915<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI seized the domains for Applanet and SnappzMarket on 21 August 2012.\u00a0Buckley and Sharp are to be sentenced on <strong>1 August 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom\u2019s big gaming drive in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87956-telkoms-big-gaming-drive-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom\u2019s big gaming drive in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What you need to do if you want a job in game development in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91033-what-you-must-do-if-you-want-a-job-in-game-development-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What you need to do if you want a job in game development in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Mining Bitcoin is about to get a lot more difficult\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90935-mining-bitcoin-is-about-to-get-a-lot-more-difficult.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mining Bitcoin is about to get a lot more difficult<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two founders of Applanet.com, Aaron Blake Buckley and Gary Edwin Sharp, have plead guilty to distributing over 4 million apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":85291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,2226],"tags":[31,947,18435,101,9065],"class_list":["post-91191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-guilty","tag-piracy","tag-pirate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91195,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91191\/revisions\/91195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}