Prison for pirating software

Posted by Aaron WeinerGeneral

Good news for the software industry: prison for pirating software:

Three defendants were sentenced to prison today for their roles in an online copyright infringement scheme involving the sale of counterfeit software worth $2.5 million, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton for the Western District of Texas announced.

The court also ordered the forfeiture of the Web site domain names – “valuesoftwaresales.com,” “allsoftwaredownload.com,” “esoftwarevalue.com” and “priceslashsoftware.com” – used in the sale of pirated software.” – backgroundnow.com

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