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Enlarge image Chinese Nationals Charged With Software Piracy Chip Chipman/Bloomberg Signage is photographed outside the headquarters of Agilent Technologies. Signage is photographed outside the headquarters of Agilent Technologies. Photographer: Chip Chipman/Bloomberg Two Chinese nationals were charged with illegally exporting technology to their home country and pirating software from U.S. companies including Agilent Technologies Inc. (A), federal officials said. Xiang Li, 35, and Chun Yan Li, 33, a married couple from Chengdu, China, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Wilmington, Delaware, according to a statement today by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “Counterfeiting and intellectual-property theft are seriously undermining U.S. business and innovation — more than $100 million in lost revenue in this one case alone,†John Morton, the agency’s director, said in the statement. The couple are accused of running a website called “Crack 99†that sold copies of software the “access-control mechanisms†of which had been circumvented, Morton said. The pair is charged with distributing more than 500 pirated copyrighted works to more than 300 purchasers in the U.S. and overseas from April 2008 to June 2011. The case was unsealed today. The software includes programs made by Santa Clara, California-based Agilent and Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based [...]
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