Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, N.Y., were accused of demanding the money as a "consulting fee" from the News Corp. (NWS) subsidiary. The pair were offering the code on their own Web site for $29.95 and claimed to be developing an unbreakable version. MySpace had blocked the existing version after it was discovered.
The two evidently have made some type of a plea arrangement with the prosecution so they pled no contest. It sounds like they got off rather lightly considering the sentence according to the article limits them to one e-mail address each, and requires they do 160 hours of community service and pay MySpace $13,500 in restitution.
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