Adrian Kwiatkowski, a hacker who stole two unreleased songs from Ed Sheeran and sold them on the dark web for cryptocurrency has been ordered to pay £101,053. About half of the money he has to pay is currently held in Bitcoin.
He was charged with copyright infringement and possessing criminal property and was jailed for 18 months.
If the payment is failed to be made within three months, he will face a further 18 months imprisonment.
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