Online retailers have to deal with shoplifting, but it is often called piratcy, and they lose billions of dollars a year. In one case, two young men matthew Purse and Christopher Walters pirated software from "Apple, Corel, McAfee, and set-up bogus online accounts that they stole from unknowing consumers"(http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3858586). These two young men portrayed themselves as legitmate online retailers on eBay to sell their stolen recopied software; and also took customers' application information. In 2008 alone software retailers' reported losing $53. Billion dollars to pirates. Two agencies that have been making attempts to catch these pirates, is the SIIA and the Federal Trade Commission. Matthew Purse was sentenced to eight years in a federal prison and hundered of thosands of dollars in fines, but, Christopher Walters is still on the run. The laws are still to vague on how to prosecute perpretrators like these two men; and also how much prison time should be placed on the books for state and federal judges to have as guidelines. The World Wide Web is so vast and it can be hard to find pirates (like finding a needle in a haystack). Many of these online thiefs are very intelligent and know how to cover their tracks by using fake server addresses and other technology.
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Another eBay Pirate heads To Prison-e-commerce-Guide.com
www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3858586
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