09/29: Software Pirate Fined $1.1 Million

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Microsoft will get $95,000 of it. From Silicon.com:

An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec $1.1m in restitution, a victory in the software industry's fight against software piracy.

The award is part of a plea agreement in a criminal software piracy case in Houston, Symantec said on Tuesday. The case came to court after a one-year investigation by the Houston police and the FBI into the activities of Li Chen, who was found to have 5,100 copies of counterfeit Symantec software at his Houston business, Symantec said.

Via Bink.nu.

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