For counterfeit Windows on trial Bashny.Net

February 25, 2004 Tagansky District Court of Moscow ruled on the criminal proceedings against the head of the company "Alpha Computers", specializing in the provision of so-called "computer service". CEO Mikhail Novikov and his deputy Kutergin SA found guilty of committing a crime under Article 146 (parts 2 and 3) of the Criminal Code, and sentenced to imprisonment for 6 months. In addition, they have to pay 1 mil began an investigation of the convicts was initiated as a result of the purchase of the check carried out by 16 January 2003. On this day, the staff of one of the divisions of the Moscow police was invited to a service engineer of "Alpha Computers" in the office of a commercial firm to install the software on a personal computer used by it. The audit revealed that a visiting service engineer to set an illegal copy of a computer software Microsoft Office 2000. The police officers after the test buy and also checked the premises of the company "Alpha Computers", located in Moscow at street first Dubrovskaja, 1 to. 4. This test was seized 30 CD-ROM discs with copies of the software Microsoft. A subsequent study confirmed their media seized counterfeit character.

However, the police did not stop at identifying only those violations of the law on copyright protection in LLC "Alpha Computers". Having carefully studied the activity of the company, they found that similar incidents of copyright infringement on software allows its employees and to test buy, held in January 2003. Moreover, after this test, the leaders of "Alpha Computers" have created two other companies - "Mosremkompyuters" and "Staylkompyuters", which is also engaged in "computer service". Information on behalf of all three companies to provide services to install the software on-site customers - home or office - was placed in the media. In various editions published a telephone operator takes the application, and then the service engineers, following the company executives traveled to customers and installed on their computers unlicensed copies of software products.

Novikov and Kutergin were sentenced to prison and detained in the courtroom. Moreover, the court considered justified and granted full civil lawsuit of Microsoft, filed in the framework of the criminal case. The convicts will have to pay to Microsoft 1 million rubles in compensation for violation of its copyright. In addition to these will be charged as 10 percent of the amount of compensation to the right holder as a penalty in favor of the state.

Source oldi.ru