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Texas Man Gets 18 Months, $600K Fine for Piracy

By james_fudge

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A Wichita Falls, Texas man is sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling nearly $1 million in pirated software. Todd Alan Cook was sentenced to prison time on October 29. In addition to 18 months in prison, Cook faces a fine of $599,771.

Cook plead guilty to criminal copyright infringement in March of this year, admitting to his part in an operation that involved his father, Robert Cook, and another unnamed individual. Robert Cook also plead guilty in March, and is scheduled to be sentenced December 3.

According to authorities, the small group sold large volumes of counterfeit software through several web sites they controlled from July 2006 to May 2008. They promoted their software through advertising their sites via major Internet search engines. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).

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