He ran it alongside Gary Edwin Sharp II, who also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement in January. The two are scheduled to be sentenced on August 1st. Besides running Applanet, Sharp also helped operate another pirated app website SnappzMarket. It's the smaller of the two, but it still distributed $1.7 million worth of applications to users. Both domains, along with another one called AppBucket, were seized back in 2012 -- the first time authorities seized websites associated with mobile applications.