Computer Crime Charges to Entrepreneur

A Connecticut woman was charged with selling pirated computer software on eBay. It seems Julie Pollowitz was charged with first-degree computer crime, second-degree forgery and sixth-degree larceny. A Louisiana man said that he paid her $87 for software that was pirated and unworkable.

When police searched her home they found 54 CDs with illegally copied software. Police say she copied about $10k of software and sold copies to unsuspecting buyers.

Pollowitz told police that she didn’t know copying software was illegal and that “everybody does it.”

A few comments here

what if the software had worked? What the buyers objection to “pirated” or unworkable?
Was it a customer support problem? If Julie had made things right with her buyer would he have filed charges?
Surely everyone past elementary school knows the “everybody does it” defense doesn’t work
Does she get any credit for starting a low-margin home business?

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jammie 4 months ago 1 point
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Very Funny material! Sounds like a customer service non satifaction problem. More than likely that quote is a bit off. Sounds like it should have been people were doing it on Ebay.

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