Some
guy just got 41 months in prison for software piracy. Adding insult to
injury, he has to pay back $810,000 and give up a Ferrari and Rolex he bought
with the proceeds from the pirated software. Between July 2004 and May of last
year, Dunaway operated about 40 Web sites that sold a "large volume" of
downloadable counterfeit software without authorization from the copyright
owners, the DOJ said. Dunaway operated computer servers in Vienna, Austria, and
Malaysia to host his businesses, the DOJ said. Agents of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE), working in cooperation with foreign law enforcement
agencies, seized Dunaway's computer servers. Dunaway promoted his piracy scheme
by purchasing advertising for his Web through major Internet search engines, the
DOJ said. Dunaway processed more than $800,000 dollars through credit card
merchant accounts under his control, the agency said.
