Who might this be??? Unfortunately someone in my own backyard felling the MS pinch.

Star-Gazette
December 4, 2006

An unidentifed Horseheads computer business is being named in a civil suit filed Monday in federal court that charges the business with pirating Microsoft software and violating copyright laws.

Mary Jo Schrade, senior Microsoft attorney, said the name of the business is being withheld until the legal papers are served later today. The local company will be identifed then, she said.

Schrade also said the legal action against the Horseheads company is one of nine similar suits being filed in New York. Overall, 30 suits will be filed across the country today, with a second round scheduled for filing in late January.

Schrade said all of the cases filed today involve pirating copyrighted software or hard disc loading, where a vendor buys one copy of a software program and loads it on every computer sold at a particular store. Depending on the particulars of each individual case, Microsoft is seeking penalties ranging from $150,000 to $1 million.

The cases all resulted from "mystery shoppers" purchasing suspect computers and shipping them to Microsoft, where they where analyzed by the company’s engineers.

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