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China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the imagine-what-they-do-if-you-make-a-silly-face dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Chinese court has jailed four people for spreading their bootleg 'Tomato Garden' version of Microsoft's Windows XP program, in what the Xinhua news agency called the nation's biggest software piracy case. One of the four men Hong Lei, the creator of the downloadable 'Tomato Garden Windows XP' software, was jailed for three and a half years by a court in Suzhou in eastern China, Xinhua."

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  1. Their Biggest One? Really? by Greyfox · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Four guys pirating windows and that's their biggest case of piracy? Really? You could only find four guys doing that? I think your search method could use a little refining there, buddy...

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  2. Re:Big nothing. by adolf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh.

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  3. Re:Big nothing. by BikeHelmet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is this modded funny?

  4. Re:Big nothing. by adolf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Precisely.

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