More software counterfeiters plead guilty

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The DOJ press release says the three pirates promoted their businesses heavily using ads on search engine market share leader Google.

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Commercial scale piracy and no jail time eh? These guys must have paid their taxes and have money behind them. Unlike some poor guy in Louisiana who was probably just trying to rebuild his life and home by saving his neighbours and other poor locals some money and gets a year banged up for his troubles..

Do I dare to say it.. yeah why not.. You know what I'm thinking

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Commercial scale piracy and no jail time eh? These guys must have paid their taxes and have money behind them. Unlike some poor guy in Louisiana who was probably just trying to rebuild his life and home by saving his neighbours and other poor locals some money and gets a year banged up for his troubles..

Do I dare to say it.. yeah why not.. You know what I'm thinking

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they have not hit sentencing yet. I will update the article :)

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Yup.. there are a lot of these commercial pirates about. You could accuse me of similar with my supplying of xp disks to people with oem machines where they got no disk when they bought the computer (I believe people are entitled to a real xp or fista installer disk when they buy the rubbish) and recover their unique details and write them on a sticker on the side/base.. or somewhere. All I ask for that is a replacement blank disk, but I'm pretty sure the copyright nazis would say I'm doing M$ out of some profit somewhere.. ;)

(btw.. anybody having troubles with sp3 requiring reactivation and getting an "invalid key" fire me a pm.. I have the cure)

Sucks to be them. Their penalty is going to be stiff. No daylight for a while.

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Yup.. there are a lot of these commercial pirates about. You could accuse me of similar with my supplying of xp disks to people with oem machines where they got no disk when they bought the computer (I believe people are entitled to a real xp or fista installer disk when they buy the rubbish) and recover their unique details and write them on a sticker on the side/base.. or somewhere. All I ask for that is a replacement blank disk, but I'm pretty sure the copyright nazis would say I'm doing M$ out of some profit somewhere.. ;)

(btw.. anybody having troubles with sp3 requiring reactivation and getting an "invalid key" fire me a pm.. I have the cure)

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i dont belive u should make money off other ppls stuff therefore i am happy these guys were caught

would those same guys have been charged if they simply sold the information telling people how to get the same software from the internet themselves? or even the equivalent opensource software e.g. Gimp or open office.

i hate to burst your bubble..

But the sites listed here sell virus loaded software as well.

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i hate to burst your bubble..

But the sites listed here sell virus loaded software as well.

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Originally posted by varnull:

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Commercial scale piracy and no jail time eh? These guys must have paid their taxes and have money behind them. Unlike some poor guy in Louisiana who was probably just trying to rebuild his life and home by saving his neighbours and other poor locals some money and gets a year banged up for his troubles..

Do I dare to say it.. yeah why not.. You know what I'm thinking

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they have not hit sentencing yet. I will update the article :)

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Please do when you find out. I'd be curious to see what the get tagged with all in all.

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