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Three Execs Get Prison Time For Pirating Oracle Firmware & Solaris OS Update (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tough-luck dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Three of four TERiX executives were sentenced to prison yesterday for a scheme through which they created three fake companies to pirate Oracle firmware patches and Solaris OS updates. By doing this, the execs avoided paying a per-server fee for every Oracle product their company serviced, instead paying for one patch/update alone.

Court documents show that Oracle was aware of the scheme and eventually connected the dots between the fake companies and TERiX when one of the execs downloaded files from Oracle's servers via one of the fake company's accounts from a TERiX IP address. Oracle filed a complaint with the FBI, but also a civil suit. A judge awarded Oracle damages last year totaling $57.423 million. The judge also barred TERiX from servicing Oracle products.

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  1. I'd like to be a fly on the wall in cell block D by JoeyRox · · Score: 5, Funny

    TERiX CEO: So, what are you in for?

    Cellmate: I stabbed my mother to death, then fed her remains to a pack of coyotes that live in my neighborhood. And you?

    TERiX CEO: I gave away firmware and OS software patches without paying the necessary service royalties to Oracle.

  2. I mean, they profited off of it. by karmaceutical · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think there is a difference between profiting off of distributing pirated software, as this was the case, and normal piracy (especially media piracy). I'm not upset with this outcome.

  3. What the *Bleep*? by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This gets prison time? The entire US Economy was crashed in 2008 by people lying about the value of derivatives and _this_ is what we send people to jail for?

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    1. Re:What the *Bleep*? by ArchieBunker · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The problem is what people did to fuck up the economy in 2008 wasn't illegal. He who has the gold makes the rules.

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    2. Re:What the *Bleep*? by FudRucker · · Score: 4, Informative

      RE:"The problem is what people did to fuck up the economy in 2008 wasn't illegal. He who has the gold makes the rules."

      bill clinton paved the way by repealing the Glass_Steagall act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... bill clinton basically allowed wallstreet investment banks to use people's private money to gamble with, the Glass Steagall act should be restored

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  4. Re:I'd like to be a fly on the wall in cell block by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    TERiX CEO: So, what are you in for?

    Cellmate: I stabbed my mother to death, then fed her remains to a pack of coyotes that live in my neighborhood. And you?

    TERiX CEO: I gave away firmware and OS software patches without paying the necessary service royalties to Oracle.

    Cellmate: Man, and I thought I was evil.

    FTFY.

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  5. Re:If you cannot afford by StormReaver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And just work the deal

    Or even better, do what we did: Tell Oracle to fuck off, and move everything to PostgreSQL.