The Story of My Piracy By tdillo in tdillo's Diary Thu Nov 26, 2015 at 05:12:43 PM EST Tags: (all tags)
	I thought that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I thought that it didn't hurt the big companies. I didn't even do it for the money, I did it for fun, I felt in the warez community that I meant something. I was convinced that I was too small a fish for someone to get to me. But eventually, they got me. Even for me, the investigators came to work.

The Czech Republic's first convicted software pirate, 30 years old and known only as Jakub F, was originally handed a three-year suspended sentence and asked to forfeit his PC, hard drives and DVD backups after being found guilty of sharing illegal copies of Windows and other copyrighted software on forums over the past eight years. As he was unable to cover the 5.7 million crowns ($223,709 or £148,314) in damages to software producers, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) helped Jakub F reach an out-of-court settlement with rightsholders that allowed him to pay a smaller fine and make up the rest by creating a video that raises awareness of software piracy. The only potential obstacle is that "The Story of My Piracy" video, must be seen by 200,000 people or the multi-million crown fine will be enforced.

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