Brothers go to jail for piracy, having earned more than $ 1 million

26th March 2008

The USA Ministry of Commerce once again showed that piracy is a serious crime. Recently, two brothers went to jail for â€œmassiveâ€ selling pirated programs in the Internet. 48-year-old Maurice Robberson is sentenced to three years and will have to pay a little more than $ 855000 as a penalty, and his 55-year-old brother Thomas got away with it by the sentence to 30 months and the penalty of $ 151000. Thomas earned more than $ 150 thousand by selling programs, the total cost of which amounted to approximately $ 1 million. He produced sales through portals Bestvalueshoppe.com and TheDealDepot.net. Maurice outstripped his brother, he earned over $ 855 thousand, the real amount of software being more that $ 5.6 ON million. His transactions occurred through the sites of CDsalesUSA.com and AmericanSoftwareSales.com.
The pirates had their accomplices, who were punished as well.
The investigation involved FBI after numerous complaints of rights owners to pirated programs sold at BuysUSA.com.