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Software IP: 18 months' jail for copyright infringement
Robert Cimino, 60, of Syracuse, N.Y., has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in the Eastern District of Virginia for his sales of more than USD250,000 worth of illegally copied software, being paid via PayPal.
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On 25 Feb., 2010, Cimino pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal copyright infringement for manufacturing and distributing pirated copies of popular business, engineering and graphic design copies of software titles by Adobe, Autodesk, Intuit, Quark and others over a more than three-year period, says the US Department of Justice.
According to court documents, Cimino operated under the business name "SoftwareSuite" and advertised the sale of discounted popular software programs on a variety of Internet-based advertising forums, including www.buysellcommunity.com, www.adpost.com and www.sell.com.
Customers would contact Cimino by email and would typically pay for the products by PayPal.
Cimino would then mail pirated copies of the programs he had burned to CD or DVD to the customers, including customers in the Eastern District of Virginia.
From February 2006 to September 2009, Cimino received at least USD270,035 in gross proceeds from his sales of pirated software products.
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