RSSThree Indicted in Huge CD Piracy Bust
By Ed Oswald | Published October 13, 2005, 10:46 AM
Three men were indicted on Wednesday in what is being called the biggest pirated-CD ring in U.S. history. Altogether, some 325,000 music and software CDs were produced, which contained Latin music and Symantec security software. All three have been released on bail and await trial, scheduled for October 27.
Ye Teng Wen, 29, Hao He, 30, and Yaobin Zhai, 33 -- all of the San Francisco area -- are charged with placing labels on CDs to make them appear as legitimate copies, which even included the FBI warning against piracy. The pirate copies made it to stores as far away as Chicago and were widely distributed, officials say.
Well, I can tell them from experience what they have to look forward to, and it's not fun. Of course they'll probably get more severe sentencing than I did since they were in it for $.
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|These guys screwed up, never charge for it. Punks.
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|Ok, I can see Latin music, but Symantec security software!?
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|Lol. I was going to say the same thing, but figured everyone was already thinking it anyway =p
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|These ARE the people who should be sued because they are actually selling the stuff for profit which, unlike the imaginary sales losses the RIAA and MPAA report, are actually real losses in profits for the producers.
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|Agreed!
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|Exactly, but the RIAA will more often go after 12 year old girls and dead people though.
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|its a good thing the RIAA is giving lawsuits to 14 yearolds to stop this. *dripping with sarcasm*
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|I imagine that they got the necessary information to bust this evil gang from that 12 year old that cracked a few months ago.
HAHAHAHAHA
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|Same reason the FBI kept denying for decades the Cosa Nostra existed-- concentrating instead on easier fish such as private citizens for just exercising their first amendment right to free speech...
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|The Man shot them out of the sky. And it was their fault for flying too close to the sun as it was, starting dropping, if you know what I mean.
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|I wish the article discussed how the men were caught, I'd really like to know.
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|What a surprise, though I feel sorry for them in a way. Here in China, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a pirate store.
They probably thought it was winked at all over the world...
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|lol @ the dead cat. Poor little cat.
You're probably right though. Heck, most people in the U.S. don't even know the risks of such activities, and we've got the RIAA and MPAA.
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|They you have to meantion your lunch. :) Just kidding...
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|this guys should be punished just for making copies of symantec software :@
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