A court ruled Thursday that a Taiwanese company should pay Microsoft Corp. about $7.8 million for stealing the U.S. company's Windows 95 and other software.
Published:
28 May 2000 y., Sunday
Microsoft sought the compensation in 1996 after Taiwanese police seized 58,000 copies of pirated software in a raid of Chung Ti Technology Co.'s warehouse in Taipei. Chung Ti's owner Hu Chung Lin has been sentenced to two years in jail for copyright infringement in a separate case. The Taiwan High Court said Chung Ti had exported the fake products and made improper profits at the expense of the U.S. company. It was not immediately known if the Taiwanese firm will appeal the ruling. Under pressure from the United States, Taiwan has stepped up its crackdown on copyright infringement in recent years.
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