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Chinese seller of pirated software sentenced to 12 years in US prison |
June 12, 2013
The operator of a website that sold more than US$100 million worth of pirated software to customers worldwide was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in a U.S. federal prison.Li Xiang, a 36-year old resident of Chengdu, China, was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and criminal copyright infringement for operating the website crack99.com, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) statement.He was arrested in June 2011 by U.S. agents when they lured him to a meeting in Saipan where he believed he was delivering 20 gigabytes of data to the representatives of U.S. businessmen. Saipan, an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and like the Atlantic island of Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the U.S., giving American authorities jurisdiction.Li's website specialized in offering copies of industrial software which had the access control or licensing files removed or circumvented.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2041462/chinese-seller-of-pirated-software-sentenced-to-12-years-in-us-prison.html#tk.rss_all
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