26/07/2007 by swordfish.

Pirated software worth $500m (£250m) has been seized as the FBI shuts down a world-spanning piracy outfit.

Before the raids the Chinese counterfeiting syndicate was thought to have sold and distributed software worth more than $2bn. Despite recent crackdowns, industry figures suggest that 82% of the software used in China is counterfeit.

The FBI and China’s Public Security Bureau arrested 25 people during the two-week operation against the pirates. The FBI said it had been building up a case against the piracy syndicate for years before staging the raids on the software production plants in China’s Guangdong province. During the raids, dubbed Operation Summer Solstice, the FBI seized more than 290,000 CDs with a claimed market value of $500m.

The gang was known to be producing pirated versions of 13 of Microsoft’s most popular programs including Windows Vista, XP and Server as well as Office 2003 and 2007.

Source: BBC Technology News

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