14 people arrested in Spain for piracy of Microsoft products

GristyMcFisty
reports us that last Thursday 14 people were arrested in Spain for intellectual piracy. According to
Reuters, the bust also resulted in
the discovery of the first-known forgeries of authenticity certificates for
Microsoft's Windows XP Professional edition:


Investigators found 3,000 perfectly copied
and packaged CDs with the operating system software, accompanied by the
fake guarantee certificates, in the northern city of San Sebastian, the
Ministry said in a statement.

They would have been sold as genuine, netting the copiers over $ 1.52
million, the statement added.

Spain has the second-highest level of information piracy in Western
Europe, after Greece, according to an industry survey, Microsoft said in a
statement released after the
arrests.

Source: Reuters

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