The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), in cooperation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of the U.S. Postal Inspector, and other government agencies, announced that a 19-count federal indictment was unsealed on January 30, 2009, charging two men with Conspiracy, Mail and Wire Fraud, Criminal Copyright Infringement, and Trafficking in Counterfeit Labels, Packaging or Containers. The indictment alleges that from September 2004 through February 2006, the two men created various web sites from which they are believed to have sold and distributed discounted counterfeit software, as well as set up merchant accounts on eBay.
It is alleged that the pair, doing business under numerous websites, fraudulently advertised that they were authorized distributors of a multitude of brand name software products from legitimate companies. Firms whose software was counterfeited include: Acronis, Apple, Corel, FWB, Intego, Intuit, Macromedia (acquired by Adobe in 1995), McAfee, Pinnacle, Sage, Sonic Solutions’ Roxio Division, Symantec, Webroot, and numerous others.
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