RSSMicrosoft Applauds Strong Piracy Conviction
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 9, 2007, 10:39 AM
Microsoft applauded a federal court's decision Thursday to jail a man convicted of hawking faked certificates of authenticity for the company's software. Judge Orinda D. Evans of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia sentenced Justin Harrison to 46 months in prison for his participation in the crime ring. Harrison ran Sales International, which participated in the trafficking of the certificates.
"The sentence recognizes the value of intellectual property and the threat that software piracy presents to the global economy and consumers throughout the world," Microsoft said in a statement. The case, which was investigated by the FBI, found that Sales International was distributing Microsoft software with the faked certificates.
"The sentence recognizes the value of intellectual property"
So they owed him time then?
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Why is nobody crying for Microsoft? This poor struggling company which creates only 100% original ideas and has never hurt anyone or any other company in its existence. To think someone would do such a thing, it's like mugging an old woman on her way to church, it's just wrong!
Anyone versed in sarcasm? :-D
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Yet Microsoft itself encourages rampant piracy in China to gain false marketshare. Go figure.
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Those are pretty hard to fake, he'll be working for the feds when he gets out.
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