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Guy was clearly unstable and in over his head. Not against the law mind you, but his mental health was deteriorating (by his own mothers admission) and he began threatening FBI agents.

The 14 months in prison without due process could have been expanded on more in the article, there was next to no info regarding that situation which leaves the reader with a fair few unanswered questions.

I guess it would've been too big to put it in that post, but my favourite DRM approach has gotta be for Spyro 3 YOTD on PS1. The anti-reversing tricks the developers used had hackers stumped for over two months trying to crack it. There's a great writeup on Gamasutra:

www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pirates_at_bay.php