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Taiwan Group Responsible For 90% of MSFT Piracy
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese man was the source of almost all high-quality pirated copies of its software up until his arrest in 2004. The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology. Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates. who were all recently sentenced to jail time, had been responsible for the 'production and distribution of more than 90 percent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world.'"
Where can I get *me* some of those high quality Microsoft products? All I seem to have are the low quality versions purchased directly from Microsoft.
Of course it's quantifiable. If they send people out all across Asia, buying up pirated Microsoft software everywhere they go, tracing the origins of each one, it is entirely likely that they can say how much supply they were able to take off the market via an arrest.
And to EVERYONE posting the tired "MS and high-quality? HAH!" joke, ugh, it's not that funny. High quality clearly refers to pirated copies that were sold as genuine, bearing holographic marks and whatnot.
And furthermore, if more people used OpenOffice, Microsoft Office would be less popular.
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It's obvious he was pirating Microsoft B.O.B!
Make SELinux enforcing again!