check this out Man gets 7 years for software piracy
It would be interesting to hear what everone 1 thinks
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Man gets 7 years for software piracy
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, Sep 10 2006 09:37 PM
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Posted 10 September 2006 - 09:37 PM
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Posted 10 September 2006 - 10:59 PM
I would say having your own site for that is just asking for trouble!
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 04:01 AM
oops! Kinda serves him right though. You know you can only get away with something like that for so long.
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 07:21 AM
ouch! well.... i guess he stuffed up bad there :S
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Posted 12 September 2006 - 02:47 PM
That's quite a while. But Chriso_86 is right...having your own site is kinda asking for it.
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Posted 13 September 2006 - 10:54 AM
"Software piracy resulted in a loss of $34 billion worldwide in 2005"
I thought it would be a lot more than that!!
He probably pleaded guilty thinking he would get a lesser sentence. Well that didn't work did it? How come it took the FBI 2 years to shut him down? Seems a bit long for what was obviously an illegal site ...
I thought it would be a lot more than that!!
He probably pleaded guilty thinking he would get a lesser sentence. Well that didn't work did it? How come it took the FBI 2 years to shut him down? Seems a bit long for what was obviously an illegal site ...
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Posted 16 September 2006 - 09:44 PM
maybe they were using his site to log downloads who go to it, thus getting in a effect a twofer (well alot more than that but you get where im comming from)
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