Microsoft Helps Nab Pirates

I have found a couple of interesting stories concerning technology and more specifically computers and their software, and because we use computers daily, that there would be interest on your part as well.

The first story has taken years to get to a resolution and begins with:
Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago. Soon, PCs in more than a dozen countries were running illegal copies of Windows and Office, turning unwitting consumers into criminals and, Microsoft says, exposing them to increased risk of malicious viruses and spyware.

The case began to turn in 2001 when U.S. Customs officers seized a shipping container in Los Angeles filled with $100 million in fake software, including 31,000 copies of the Windows operating system.

A after you read the story at the link, and see that many have been caught, there is every indication that it not only continues, but will grow as technology grows!!


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