California police arrest 'mid-level' software pirate
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(InfoWorld) - California police arrested a man on Tuesday who allegedly sold illegally copied Microsoft and Adobe Systems software on the Internet for seven years, netting him an estimated $750,000. Gad Zamir, 64, of Menifee, California, was arrested after an eight-month investigation, said the Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Zamir allegedly copied and then sold the programs on online auctions sites, the team said. TheÂ pirated softwareÂ included Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Enterprise -- a $25,000 program at the time of its release -- which he allegedly sold on the auction sites for $7,750, and Adobe's Creative Suite 2, which sold below market price at $280, police said. Police said they found 15 computers, $13,000 in cash, and software valued at $283,000 in Zamir's home, calling it a "mid-level" piracy operation. Microsoft praised the arrest, calling it an "important victory in what is an ongoing, global fight." Â
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More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec  products, has been seized in a long-running joint probe by  Chinese police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,  officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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An Iowa man is the first to be convicted under &quot;Operation Fastlink,&quot; an international investigation of the distribution of pirated software, games, music and
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A man has been arrested for selling portions of the Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code on-line after the software was illegally leaked onto the internet in February, according to reports.
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A California man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution as a result of a federal piracy case, software company Autodesk said Friday.
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The leader of one of an Internet software piracy group was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
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A 27-year-old Connecticut man was arrested today on charges he offered online to sell the source code for Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs.
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California police are probing if   computer hackers illegally downloaded a private taped   conversation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from state   computers, a spokesman said on Monday.
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A 20-year-old man has been arrested in England in the theft of the proprietary software blueprints used by Cisco Systems Inc.&#39;s networking equipment, police and the company confirmed Friday.
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California police are probing if   computer hackers illegally downloaded a private taped   conversation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from state   computers, a spokesman said Monday.
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A Los Angeles man was arrested on Thursday on charges of impersonating a federal agent in what
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Police said on Monday they have arrested a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco Systems  source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic across the globe.
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Greek and British police have cracked a multimillion-dollar illegal software sales ring, arresting two people and seizing thousands of pirated high-tech software programs.
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InfoWorld - Spanish police have arrested a 28-year-old man on charges that he created variants of the CommWarrior and Cabir mobile phone viruses, according to published reports.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
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Replacement kit fraud A public sector computer technician from New Jersey has been arrested over allegations he took Cisco for $10m through a fraud that exploited the networking giant's programme for replacing broken or defective kit.â¦
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Police said on Monday they have arrested a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco Systems (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic across the