Software Piracy
11/30/2011
Software Piracy
Walnut Creek: After receiving a complaint from Autodesk regarding a bay area Craigslist seller advertising Autodesk products for sale an NC3TF Investigator contacted the suspect by email. The suspect advised that he could provide any Autodesk product for $200.00. The NC3TF Investigator requested one of Autodesk’s latest releases, Autodesk Design Suite 2012 which retails for over $9,995.00. Upon meeting with the suspect he downloaded a trial version of the software from the Autodesk web site. The suspect then transferred files from a portable hard drive which he used to activate the program. Upon completion of the sale the suspect was arrested. A search of the suspect’s back pack incident to his arrest yielded additional portable hard drives, flash drives, and CD’s which contained “cracking” keys for multiple software companies as well various Microsoft and Adobe.