A Chinese court has sentenced four pirates to jailtime and given the site a 11 million yuan ($1.6 million USD) fine for their part in distributing pirated software, including Windows XP and Office.
The BSA applauded the decision, calling it the first successful large scale online piracy conviction in the nation.
Hong Lei and Sun Xiansheng, who ran the website, received three and a ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by domie: This happened in China ? OK , 1 down only 1,999,999 to go !!!!
Technically its five pirates this weak, besides this kind of piracy I find bad but atleast these pirates are being costed more then the first one for selling Adobe photoshop for 10 bucks and only had to pay over 2000 thousand or so. I'm glad these pirates get more then the first and up close to Jamie Thomas cost which hers is really harmless really unlike these five pirates this weak getting caught..
Serves them right...how dare they distribute such terrible software. Everyone who distributes Microsoft products should be jailed & fined. I guess the piracy thing is bad too...
