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The US government secured its first victory against Android app pirates

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U.S. prosecutors announced that two of the four men involved in two Android piracy websites , snappzmarket.com and appbucket.net, have pleaded guilty to copyright infringement. The case marks the first time that U.S. authorities have successfully prosecuted a case involving app store piracy

The FBI shut down the sites listed above in August 2012 and filed charges against the men in January 2014.

The two men, Nicholas Anthony Narbone, 26, of Orlando, Florida, and Thomas Allen Dye, 21, of Jacksonville, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. They are scheduled to be sentenced in the coming months.

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