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Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

An anonymous reader sends this quote from Bloomberg: "A Chinese national was sentenced to 12 years in a U.S. prison for selling more than $100 million worth of software pirated from American companies, including Agilent Technologies Inc., from his home in China. Li and his wife, of Chengdu, China, were accused of running a website called 'Crack 99' that sold copies of software for which 'access-control mechanisms had been circumvented, the U.S. said in an unsealed 46-count indictment. The pair was charged with distributing more than 500 copyrighted works to more than 300 buyers in the U.S. and overseas from April 2008 to June 2011. The retail value of the products was more than $100 million, the government said. Li is the first Chinese citizen to be 'apprehended and prosecuted in the U.S. for cybercrimes he engaged in entirely from China,' prosecutors said in court filings."

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  1. His mistake is obvious by TrollstonButterbeans · · Score: 5, Funny

    He should have done the transactions in bitcoin.

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  2. Re:Nuber not that impressive by stanIyb · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not saying this is right, but I know too many photoshop thieves

    If you know a lot of people who steal other people's copies of photoshop, you're probably hanging out with the wrong crowd.

  3. Re:Nuber not that impressive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I steal only pirate copies of photoshop. That's not as bad, because the people I took it from had no right to have it in the first place.

  4. Re:Nuber not that impressive by king+neckbeard · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, the Chinese citizen is Prometheus and the US government is Zeus? Didn't they have anything better to do, like turn into swans and rape young women?

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  5. Re:Good by pantaril · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't know the meaning of the word "entrap", you stupid fuck.

    And you obviously lack few slaps from your parents which would tech you good manners.

  6. Re:Good by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can damn well try! I'm behind seven proxi###&4%f2a664#NO CARRIER

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  7. Re:Good by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and then there were no remaining AOL users.

  8. Re:Good by Main+Gauche · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, he was entrapped in Saipan, and prosecuted for crimes he didn't commit while in the US.

    2. Promptly escape through the Los Angeles underground.
    3. Work as soldier of fortune.
    4. Profit!