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Texas Software Pirate Gets 41 Months
Posted by Regeneration on February 18th, 2009, 05:18 PM

A 24-year-old Texas man was sentenced on Tuesday to 41 months in prison for selling counterfeit computer software over the Internet, the US Justice Department said. Timothy Kyle Dunaway of Wichita Falls, Texas pleaded guilty in October 2008 to one count of criminal copyright infringement for selling pirated business software online that had a retail value of one million dollars.

US District Court Judge Reed O?Connor sentenced Dunaway in Wichita Falls to 41 months in prison on Tuesday and two years of supervised release, the Justice Department said. He was also ordered to pay 810,257 dollars in restitution and to forfeit a Ferrari 348 TB and a Rolex watch. According to court documents, Dunaway operated computer servers in Austria and Malaysia that hosted some 40 websites from July 2004 through May 2008 selling downloadable counterfeit software.

You can read the entire article at Yahoo! News.

1 Comments
Conclusion:
Piracy is bad enough already.
But if you want to get paid for it.. *Look above.*
:-)
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