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In March, Sabu – the leader of the LulzSec collective – pleaded guilty to 12 offences which could in theory land him in jail for the next 124 years. He should have been sentenced today, on August 22, but the FBI asked the judge to postpone the decision for six months.   In case you’re wondering why, it’s because apparently Sabu (Hector Xavier Monsegur) is still cooperating with authorities, Wired reports . “The Government respectfully submits this letter to request a six-month adjournment of the August 22, 2012, sentencing control date set in the above-captioned matter in light of the defendant’s ongoing cooperation with the Government. Pursuant to his cooperation agreement, the defendant consents to the requested adjournment,” the court document reads. For now, the details of the agreement Monsegur has made with the FBI are unknown. He may simply be offering his expertise on hacking matters, or he might very well be working undercover in an attempt to ...

The man behind Surfthechannel.com, a site that offered links to websites streaming copyright protected content has been sentenced to four years in jail. Found guilty for fraud and facilitating copyright infringement, 38 year old Anton Vickerman, designed the site and took others onboard to help source movies and TV shows that were available for online streaming. Surfthechannel hosted links to the media, working as a sort of database for movies and TV shows, in a similar fashion to the TV-Links website, whose owner David Rock, is still legally embattled . Arrested in 2008, Mr Vickerman was said to have generated over £35,000 a month in advertising revenue while running the site (according to the BBC ), which only ceased operation at the commence of the trial earlier this year. The indictment was spearheaded by both the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Federation against Copyright Theft (FACT). The latter of those organisations was very pleased wit...