Symantec $100K – Pirates Zip

23 Nov, 2006 at 3:55pm ET Article published in Tech

Aaaaarrrrhhhh!

Two eBay traders agreed this week to pay $100,000 in damages after they were caught selling illegal copies of Norton security software.

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In an SIIA statement, defendant Kevin Liu said: “If I had known that SIIA was checking eBay for software piracy, and if I had known the software was pirated and that I’d have to pay such a high fine, I would have never sold the pirated software to begin with.”

Right, Kevin. We believe you.

Source: The Register

Comments

24 Nov 2006 ~ 7:32am Shalimar Uhm who in their right mind would pay good money for this software...:confused2

Shal
24 Nov 2006 ~ 9:37am profdlp Good point.
26 Nov 2006 ~ 1:23am RWB

Shalimar wrote:

Uhm who in their right mind would pay good money for this software...:confused2

Shal

Right?!

At work, it seems the majority of people have Norton, thus the majority of people who appear to be connected aren't getting the internet because Norton is blocking it. WTF! It sucks having to tell people that they need to turn off their firewall to get online, makes my company look bad. Wouldn't upset me as much if it didn't happen so often, and the same thing occurred(but even more-so) when I worked for Verizon DSL. Like at least 90% of the time when they are getting a valid IP, but no internet... it's that damned NIS program. Turn it off, it works, and tell them to speak with Norton.
26 Nov 2006 ~ 2:02am Thrax We have customers sign an agreement at work which permits us to remove any Norton software. That stuff is <i>foul</i>.
29 Nov 2006 ~ 6:38am djshowdown its so resource hungry as well

my girlfriends laptop, albeit an absolute dinosaur, starts about a minute and a half quicker since i removed norton anti-virus and replaced it with avg free