A man from the age of 46 years Virginia has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for allegedly selling pirated Adobe software on eBay, according to U.S. Department of Justice. A man named Gregory William Fair and sentenced to prison for 41 months and fined $ 743,098 by the high court district of Washington, DC, Thursday (22/10). Fair also lost $ 144,000 in cash, plus 1 car BMW 525i, Hummer H2, Mercedes CL600, and 1st in 1969 Pontiac GTO, which claims to all purchased with the proceeds of the sale of pirated software is illegal process.
EBay is known as a place selling pirated Adobe software by employees of U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), who later found the Fair as a vendor of pirated Adobe software in large numbers by using a PayPal account with a different username. Fair selling pirated Adobe software of Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, and Adobe PageMaker 6.5 at a discount of $ 100 to $ 120.
According to prosecutors, written in PayPal's report, the Fair received about $ 1.4 million from the sale of pirated Adobe software on eBay. In fact, the Fair also has admitted that the sale of pirated software is Adobe doing since 2001 until 2007.
Damn, that was a huge bust right there! Selling software online at that price will definitely get the attention of a whole lot of people. 1.4 Million. I could live a good life from that. Piracy is bad. Good thing i wasnt scammed into doing that.
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