Ms. Hou then paid a Foxconn employee named Lin Kecheng to get digital images of the device’s back cover from last September, six months before the iPad 2 was publicly announced. The court spared no pity on the three collaboraters, and announced on Tuesday that each person would get a jail sentence of at least a year. Xiao Chengsong got 18 months in prison, and was fined about $23,000. Hou Penga was sentenced to a year in prison and fined about $4600. Lin got 14 months and was fined about $15,400.  These three will be waiting longer than all of us for a jailbreak.

The Shenzhen court said that MacTop had begun manufacturing cases for the iPad 2 and promoting them online before the iPad 2 was released, using information obtained illegally. The court claimed the whole affair caused huge losses to Foxconn. Lesson of the day – don’t steal intellectual property from Apple in China. In the USA on the other hand, it seems that you’ll only get your house raided.

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