4 People Jailed for Selling Pirated Windows XP in China
4 People Jailed for Selling Pirated Windows XP in China
Posted 08/24/2009 at 1:17pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Four people were jailed earlier today in eastern China today for selling pirated copies of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows XP.
Hong Lei and Sun Xianzhong were both sentenced to three and a half years and fined a million Yuan ($176,000) by a Suzhou city court. Along with them, two others were jailed for two years and fined 100,000 Yuan. According to prosecutors, they were members of a gang that offered free downloads of the OS and pulled money off of ads. Apparently, more than ten million people had downloaded the software.
The site gained attention from Chinese authorities after officials with the US Business Software Alliance filed a compliant last June.
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Yusonice
August 25, 2009 at 4:04am
Its not always cheaper. Its about the same price in Singapore. Good thing for you is that ms offer promotions like the preorder only in the US. We have to pay the same price for the products
jihnn
August 24, 2009 at 2:29pm
with the way ms is treating peole here in the states.... crappy activation or upgrades... selling the os for half our cost in other countries....
just wait till we the public take a stand and say no more..... I'll just help myself to a free one .. screw you ms i'm tired of paying the penelty for the bootlegers.... and whats up with selling for less in other countries
mesiah
August 24, 2009 at 5:14pm
I love how the american way of taking a stand and promoting capitalism is no longer giving support to the competitor but instead just stealing the product. Most people that use your rationalization weren't planning on buying it to begin with. If you truely wanted to show your disgust for their acts you would use linux or mac os. Didn't your parents ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? (but 3 rights do make a left.)
erolsipar
August 24, 2009 at 2:25pm
In Turkey %60-80 of people use pirated software as xp,vista or office. Almost every internet cafe uses pirated software or else it's hard to spend more.
afroloop
August 24, 2009 at 2:10pm
Ok, good job guys, just a billion or so more to go and you'll have this under control.
Giffdawg
August 24, 2009 at 1:43pm
The article that this one refers to says they were pirating XP, not 7
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