A Chinese man accused of cracking and selling software stolen from Microsoft, Oracle, and Agilent Technologies pleads to guilty copyright violations and wire fraud in U.S. federal court.

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The takeaway here is that while a greater percentage of individuals in non-U.S. countries pirate software, individuals in the U.S. pirate much more expensive software.

Peterson’s sentence is the longest ever given for software piracy in the U.S., according to the SIIA, with the average sentence over the past six years being 22 months.

To put Peterson's sentence in perspective, in criminal piracy cases, the average damages resulting from pirated software are just over $9 million, or less than half of the $20 million caused by ...

A software pirate has agreed to pay a $205,000 fine to settle a civil suit filed over the selling of illegal copies of Symantec Corp. software on eBay Inc.

He was ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution in the case involving software giants Adobe Inc. ADBE and Autodesk Inc. ADSK, as well as Macromedia Inc., which was acquired by Adobe.