Cnet reports that 4 suspected software pirates arrested in L.A. this week with counterfeit Microsoft products were running a big, sophisticated operation but failed to fake the anti-piracy hologram on the disks, a company security executive said Saturday:
They were a very sophisticated group," said Richard LaMagna, Microsoft's senior manager of worldwide piracy enforcement. LaMagna said the group was well-organized, well-funded and appeared to be "distributing millions of dollars of software." |
He said that the software CDs seized included Microsoft's Windows Millennium edition. The genuine version carries an edge-to-edge hologram as a security feature, which LaMagna said the pirates tried to imitate.
"We're pleased that they haven't been able to do that very well," he said. The pirates had placed stickers that looked like the hologram on their CDs, but these were easy to peel off.
Source: Cnet.com
