Men Plead Guilty To Selling Counterfeit Software On eBay
Published June 27th, 2007
Two men have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to selling nearly $6 million worth of counterfeit software on eBay.
Robert Koster of Jonesboro, Ark., and Yutaka Yamamoto of Pico Rivera, Calif., both pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit Rockwell Automation computer software over the Internet. Each defendant faces up to five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and three years of supervised release. They are slated to be sentenced in November.
Federal authorities have been cracking down on counterfeiters stealing and selling copies of Rockwell software. These pleas, which came down on Monday, make a total of nine felony convictions involving eBay auctions of counterfeit Rockwell Automation software. The combined retail value of the counterfeit software in all nine prosecutions is approximately $30 million, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
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