Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Microsoft Busts Piracy Ring In China


Microsoft is feeling very good about themselves today after having a chance to play CSI. The FBI and the Chinese authorities made one of the biggest busts in software history, after a $500 million dollar piracy ring was broken up.

Windows Genuine Advantage informed users that the 'OEM software' they were trying to activate was a pirated version of Vista, and worked with the users to track down the said pirates.

Hit the jump to read the article. [WindowsVistaBlog via Crunchgear]

1 comment:

Timothy Pontious said...

So at $500 million, that should be... a couple thousand licenses?

/somebody should check my math