Software Pirate Gets 41 Months in Prison, Loses His Ferrari
Posted 02/18/09 at 08:28:37 AM by Pulkit Chandna
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Timothy Kyle Dunaway, a Texas-based software pirate, who had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of criminal copyright violation, has been handed a 41-month jail term by a US District Judge. His clandestine network included 40 websites hosted on servers based in Austria and Malaysia.
He is said to have sold pirated business software through these websites. His activities are estimated to have cost $1 million to software authors.
Not only has he been ordered to pay $810,257 in damages, but the court has also sequestered two of his most cherished belongings, a Ferrari 348 TB and a Rolex watch. After being unnoticed for four prolific years, his business eventually came on the government’s radar screen in May 2008.
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as Nelson the bully would say
Submitted by Queenof1 on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 12:14pm
HA HA!
DUDE! YOURE GOING TO JAIL!
Submitted by I Jedi on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 10:53am
DUDE! YOURE GOING TO JAIL!
lol
Submitted by ArrecBarrwin on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 7:06am
"Dunaway", ironic name.
Submitted by EricBourland on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 6:33am
"Software Pirate Gets 41 Months in Prison, Looses His Ferrari"
Submitted by opulent_rigs on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 11:33am
am thankful that you brought my mistake to light. Soon after reading about my folly, I plunged deep into a stupor
and was close to committing suicide. Then the thought that it was a minor loss of form struck me and I retreated from the brink....lol. Anyways, I have corrected the headline. Thanks and Cheers
Submitted by mrvander on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 8:55am
One of the most common usage/spelling errors and here it is on a professional magazine's website. Ugh.
I suppose it would be accurate usage if he set his Ferrari free.
If you ever took journalism,
Submitted by vistageek on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 7:06am
If you ever took journalism, you would know that that is a proper headline.
That is a sad guy...Looses his watch and $800,000 cus he is steeling. If you steel you will get punished...
Zstadt
Submitted by Asevening on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 8:16am
Zstadt is right. It should be lose not loose. Is he untightening lug nuts on his ride or is he having his Ferrari Repo'd? He is losing his Ferrari. Is he taking things that aren't his or is he putting steel plating on everything he owns? He is taking things that don't belong to him (stealing). Again, Zstadt is right. Go open an english book and stop wasting everyones time, VistaGeek. What crackpot journalism classes are you taking?
...
Submitted by zstadt on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 7:32am
Actually, the headline should read, "...Loses His Ferrari", and subsequently, your post should read, "...he is stealing", and "If you steal..." (I won't even point out "cus"). Had you taken elementary school English, you would know how to properly use these words in context.
Submitted by anonuser on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 8:10am
(I won't even point out "cus")
good job not pointing that out.
Submitted by zstadt on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 2:57pm
If nobody made a big deal of
Submitted by AntiHero on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 8:47am
If nobody made a big deal of it, I wouldn't have noticed. I'm an exceptional speller, but I don't read the headline too much because like most people I see keywords and judging on those I decide if I'm interested, In this case I seen Pirate and Ferrari. However....if he could afford both a Rolex, a Ferrari and have change left over to live...why not start a software business from home, hire people to make something we don't have or need a more efficient/cheaper alternative to, and then sell... If he could figure out how to keep under radar for 4 years and make money doing so, he sure as hell could have found a better idea for making money without risk of losing everything.
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