12/19: Ms and The MPO Group Settle
Posted by Patrick
From the press release:
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Microsoft Corporation today announced a multi-million dollar settlement with The MPO Group, a Microsoft® authorised disk replicator, following a several-year investigation into the production and distribution of counterfeit Microsoft server software. As part of the settlement, MPO has acknowledged that it breached the disk replication agreements it had in place with Microsoft after unlawfully replicating thousands of Microsoft server software disks in reliance on a fake Microsoft licensing agreement.
Headquartered in Averton, France, with operations in Ireland and Thailand, MPO Group's Thai subsidiary manufactured 20,000 counterfeit copies of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server™ products in July 2003. In the ensuing year, investigators and attorneys in Microsoft’s Worldwide Anti-Piracy team, often working in collaboration with law enforcement officials, recovered some of the counterfeits in court-authorised searches and test purchases and traced them back to the MPO Group’s Thailand manufacturing facility at MPO Asia.
Headquartered in Averton, France, with operations in Ireland and Thailand, MPO Group's Thai subsidiary manufactured 20,000 counterfeit copies of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server™ products in July 2003. In the ensuing year, investigators and attorneys in Microsoft’s Worldwide Anti-Piracy team, often working in collaboration with law enforcement officials, recovered some of the counterfeits in court-authorised searches and test purchases and traced them back to the MPO Group’s Thailand manufacturing facility at MPO Asia.
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