Two men who ran Applanet have pleaded guilty to distributing more than 4 million pirated copies of Android apps, with a total retail value of more than $17 million.<\/p>\n
This is 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 Applanet was an alternative online marketplace for Android apps that made Android games and applications,\u00a0which\u00a0developers usually charged for, available for free.<\/p>\n Aaron Blake Buckley and\u00a0Gary Edwin Sharp ran\u00a0Applanet, while\u00a0Sharp also lead another online piracy group – the SnappzMarket Group.<\/p>\n He admitted that the SnappzMarket Group conspired to distribute more than a million pirated Android apps, with a total retail value of more than $1.7 million.<\/p>\n The FBI seized the domains for Applanet and SnappzMarket on 21 August 2012.\u00a0Buckley and Sharp are to be sentenced on 1 August 2016.<\/p>\n Android keyboard gets massive upgrade<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n BlackBerry PRIV upgrade to Android Marshmallow released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chromebooks set to receive Android apps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Android\u2019s latest security release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nMore on Android<\/h3>\n