NinjaVideo Co-Founder Pleads Guilty In Illegal Download Situation

A 23-year-old New York guy who co-founded an internet site offering illegal downloads pleaded guilty to conspiracy and criminal copyright violation today in theU.S. District Court for that Eastern District of Virginia.Matthew David Howard Cruz accepted he designed most of the options that come with NinjaVideo that permitted site visitors to seize high-quality downloads of content including movies which had not been launched in theaters, in addition to Television shows. The website went online inFebruary 2008 and was shut lower by police force in June 2010. An analysis into NinjaVideo has been carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with piracy task pressure IPR Center.Cruz stated he'd contracts with marketers for NinjaVideo which he yet others active in the site collected a lot more than $500,000 between 2008 and 2010.NinjaVideo also asked its customers to create donations and in exchange granted its premium people use of private forums that held more copyrighted material, based on court papers.Cruz faces no more than 5 years imprisonment on each count, and four other alleged co-conspirators connected using the site are headed for any jury trial beginning February. 6. Cruz is scheduled to become sentenced on 12 ,. 16.