She said the men's guilty pleas are "a significant deterrent, in that it shows the Department of Justice and our partner agencies like Homeland Security have the technology and the ability to uncover these illegal schemes.
They discovered that Ross' business, Software Slashers, was reselling tens of thousands of stolen Microsoft software registration codes obtained from a source in China. Digging into Ross's communications, they traced those codes to other counterfeit software resellers across the country, and then to their suppliers, too, some of whom were in Germany and Singapore.
Ross pleaded guilty to his part of the scheme in June. Share Twitter LinkedIn Email. Working Paper DOI Issue Date December Acknowledgements and Disclosures This research was conducted while both researchers were Consulting Researchers to Microsoft Research.
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Penalties for distributing software can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Russell Huebsch has written freelance articles covering a range of topics from basketball to politics in print and online publications. He graduated from Baylor University in with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. By: Russell Huebsch. What Constitues Software Piracy Several court cases have questioned what constitutes pirating software.
Beginning Before one could freely copy computer programs and pirate without any legal ramifications in a sense.
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