Thursday, January 1, 2009

news 7

Tough sentences in China over huge piracy ring

A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than two billion dollars' worth of fake Microsoft goods, the company said. The court in the southern city of Shenzhen and sentenced 11 people to jail terms of up to six and a half years for making high quality counterfeit software that was sold in 36 countries. I think they should be sentenced to jail for a longer time. The illegal syndicate, based in the southern province of Guangdong, pirated versions of 19 of the company's most popular products, which were produced in at least 11 languages.

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