Thats a whole lot of cd`s.
Law enforcement officials on Friday announced the largest seizure of counterfeit software in U.S. history, a shipping container of cleverly faked copies of Microsoft's Windows software valued at $100 million. |
Federal investigators and police said a well-funded syndicate operating in Taiwan and the Los Angeles area had tried to ship the pirated software here by bribing an undercover agent posing as a U.S. Customs Service official.
"We intercepted the nerve," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca told reporters at a county warehouse, where nearly 31,000 copies of the Windows operating system were held.
Police arrested three suspects, including a Taiwanese woman, after an 18-month sting operation aimed at cracking what was believed to be a distribution pipeline for bringing software knock-offs to Los Angeles, considered a hub for the underground business.
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Source: CNet
