The prosecution of a major California video game pirate has resulted in a comparatively light sentence.
The San Jose Mercury-News reports that Khuong Van Truong copped a plea in Santa Clara County Superior Court this week. Truong stood accused of counterfeiting and possessing more the 11,000bootleg video games, 4,000 DVDs and 300 audio CDs. The pirated goods were valued at an estimated $420,000.
The Entertainment Software Association, which represents the interests of US video game publishers, told the Mercury-News that the counterfiet games probably netted Truon thousands of dollars per month. According to radio station KLIV, Truong ran the copying operation from his home. He also pleaded guilty to narcotics and child endangerment offenses. In addition, KLIV reports that Truong, who will be sentenced on February 3rd, is expected to receive less than a year in jail. That seems a bit light considering the drug and child welfare counts as well as the SJ Merc's description of his operation as "one of the largest pirated video games cases on the West Coast." There's no word on exactly what type of games Truong was pirating. We have a request into the ESA for additional information. UPDATE: (via: Kotaku) The San Francisco Chronicle has more on the story: The case came to light when Truong's 2-year-old son walked into a busy intersection while Truong was not home... A passing driver stopped to care for the boy and call police... Truong returned home and allowed officers inside the house, where a pirating operation was discovered... and [Truong] was also found to be in possession of marijuana, illegal mushrooms, steroids and ecstasy...




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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
I'll be honest, I find allowing your 2 year old to wonder into the path of traffic to be far more shocking than anything else in this case.
Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
This is why there are statuary damages and civil suits.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
Ya but they count the aleged damages so the 400K is what they will charge him with and be fined oh say 50-400K, or as bad 1-5K and jail time, he probly made a 100th of the retail price for each sale so they should focs on the going rate for the illict discs and base the damages on that.
Bascily fine im for what he made add in fines and jail time if needed.
at 10K plus they should take property, gound the process more if what I am getting at.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
I hope he gets what he deserves. People who make counterfeit games should be persecuted to the extent of the law.
Pirates copy things from the internet, depriving no one of the game/music/video, whereas counterfeiters actually profit and make money from making physical counterfeits. I hope they all get shot.
Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
They're just crooks, no need to get that angry over them.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
Either way, there's still a major difference between ripping off the company you're pirating from and profiting from it. Pirating via bittorrent or whatever is a verbal taunt to the face, and bootlegging is a one finger salute. Both are offensive, much less illegal, but the latter is sure to evoke more fury than the former.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
Meh petty crime is pretty….. for operations like this what was made is more important than what the potential max of the illicit profit.
By all means fine the criminals but do so in equal proration to what they steal look at sony and big boys getting away with stealing millions and getting a slap on the wrist, petty crime is dealt with small fines, larger crime of 5K plus take their property away for corporate crime 100X the worth of what’s stolen or misused to bankrupt corrupt companies.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
I never heard of a pirate getting a heavy sentence. Granted there are worse things you can do as a criminal.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
They can be taped by the mainstream, at least the people new to the game, they just have to quit being douche bags.
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Re: Heavyweight Game Pirate Gets Light Sentence
If drugs were involved he might of coped out and got a lighter sentence to snitch on them or a larger copyright infringement ring either way if he was selling software illicitly…throw im under a bus…..
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Pirates,Shearers,Lenders and downloaders are not a market that can be taped by the mainstream.
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I is fuzzy brained mew =^^=
http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Let's renegotiate them.
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