Chinese software pirates get prison sentences
Thursday, January 1, 2009 - 09:35
in Mathematics & Economics
(AP) -- The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least $2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft Corp. software were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms of up to 6 1/2 years, in what is believed to be the harshest penalties yet under China's tightened piracy laws.