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$500M Piracy Ring Busted In China
Blahbooboo3 writes "Reported by several news organizations, pirated software worth more than $500 million has been seized by authorities in China as part of a joint operation run by Chinese police and the FBI. Microsoft estimates that the software piracy of an international counterfeiting syndicate, over the past six years, cost the company at least $2 billion in lost software revenue. Microsoft said that key information in the investigation came from its Windows Genuine Advantage program, an anti-piracy system that can check whether an OS is legit. It's generally accepted that Microsoft has done well out of software piracy: it helps products become widely used, and as the market matures, people start to pay for their software. And this has been a major factor in Windows beating Linux in China, as Bill Gates has admitted."
Codename "Summer Solstice" - no, not a porn film, but the name of the FBI operation encompassing multiple copyright investigations - including the one in question.
(link is to the FBI press release for this case).
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Software? How about movies? Shoot, crack down on that and everyone in Hollywood could be eating caviar and crapping gold bricks. Oh, wait. They already do.
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.