Another eBay Software Pirate Jailed for Selling (Pirated) Software 4 Less

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Another eBay Software Pirate Jailed for Selling (Pirated) Software 4 Less

02-02-2007, 10:21 AM,

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Another eBay Software Pirate Jailed for Selling (Pirated) Software 4 Less

Quote:After this week's arrest of a California man accused of selling pirated copies of Microsoft and Adobe Systems software, police said the suspect had brazenly offered the disks on eBay and on personal Web sites. This latest case highlights an ongoing trend that software makers are battling.

"It may take a lot of guts, but there are a lot of people with a lot of guts," Keith Kupferschmid, a spokesperson for the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), told TechNewsWorld. "This is, perhaps, the software industry's biggest problem: pirated software being sold on eBay and other auction sites."

In the California case, Gad Zamir, 64, was arrested Tuesday following police executions of search warrants at two of his residences in Menifee. Authorities said Zamir was selling copies of Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise, a US$25,000 program, for $7,750, and copies of Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 2, with a retail value of about $500, for less than $300...

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Jtaf...sted.xhtml

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