Two Men Sentenced In Largest Ever U.S. CD and DVD Pirating Case

[mandy]

Two men were sentenced Monday in what the government is calling the largest CD and DVD pirating scheme to be prosecuted in the United States.

Ye Teng Wen, also known as Michael Wen, 31, and Hao He, who is sometimes called Kevin He, 32, both of Union City, Calif., were each sentenced to 37 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, a $125,000 fine, and a $500 mandatory special assessment. On June 4, a third conspirator, Yaobin Zhai, also known as Ben Zhai, 34, of Fremont, Calif., received the same sentence but also was ordered to pay $6.9 million in restitution...

According to a Department of Justice release, agents seized about 494,000 pirated music, software, and movie CDs, and DVDs, and more than 6,135 stampers, which are used to manufacture the CDs and DVDs.

The government estimated that that amount of equipment could reproduce more than 300 million pirated CDs and DVDs...

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