Man charged for selling forged license keys for network switches

September 30, 2024 at 01:47PM Benjamin Paley, co-owner of Minnesota’s GEN8 Services, is indicted in the U.S. for participating in an international conspiracy to traffic counterfeit networking devices. Alongside co-conspirators, Paley allegedly sold at least 3,637 forged Brocade switch licenses, causing Brocade significant financial losses. He may face a maximum of 20 years in prison … Read more

Former Avaya employee gets 4 years for $88M license piracy scheme

July 29, 2024 at 02:05PM Three individuals involved in a large-scale software pirating operation, selling unauthorized Avaya business telephone system software licenses worth over $88,000,000, were sentenced to prison. The individuals, Raymond Bradley “Brad” Pearce, Dusti O. Pearce, and Jason M. Hines, pleaded guilty and were ordered to forfeit between $2 to $4 million as … Read more