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Article: Woman sentenced in software scam
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2009
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MADISON, Wis. - A Dubuque woman who made $85,000 selling hundreds
of copies of pirated software over the Internet in 2003 was
sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Madison to six months in
prison.
Kelly Garcia, 39, formerly of Boscobel, Wis., acquired
unauthorized copies of 100 different software titles and began
selling them on the Internet in March 2003. Some were purchased by
the Business Software Alliance, which determined they were pirated
copies of Macromedia software and turned them over to the FBI for
investigation.
A November 2003 search of Garcia's Boscobel residence recovered
sales and Paypal records indicating that since March she received
approximately $85,000 by selling ...