Woman Gets Prison for Selling Illegal Software
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $4.5 million to Microsoft for selling illegally reproduced company software.
Lisa Chan, 36, of Fremont was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken. Chan will begin serving her sentence in February for conspiracy to infringe copyrights.
In exchange for her guilty plea, 15 other counts were dropped. Chan sold about 6,000 pieces of illegally replicated Microsoft programs from August 1999 to May 2000, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
