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Man is sentenced to five years for distributing pirated copies of Microsoft software. It really isn't worth skipping the fees when this is the end result. Yet, it continues to happen.
Yahoo! News - German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for Microsoft Fraud: "a software dealer from Willich, near Bochum in western Germany, was found guilty of repackaging more than 32,000 copies of software products meant for schools and colleges, a Bochum court spokesman said.
He sold them on through his firm, Dino-Soft, defrauding the world's No. 1 software maker of some 4.5 million euros ($5.53 million), the spokesman said. "

posted by Jordan @ 7/27/2004 12:07:00 PM