Inky Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Two Amherstburg, ON (Canada) residents are facing 21 charges under the Copyright Act, after RCMP investigators shut down an operation that was allegedly making and selling counterfeit Xbox games. The RCMP received a complaint from Microsoft Canada, the manufacturer, copyright and trademark holder for Xbox, about a Website that was selling counterfeit games for modified Xbox systems. As part of the investigation, approximately 20 counterfeit games were purchased from the Website, which was tracked to a residence in Amherstburg.Investigators believe the Website was in business for longer than 15 months, and sold in excess of 14,700 games at approximately US$7 each. Total sales is estimated at US$95,000, and games were sold all over the world, including in Australia, England, Ireland and Denmark.Tammy Colombe, 26, and Christopher Kay, 27 were both charged on January 12, 2005 with 15 counts of selling and six counts of making counterfeit goods.I'm pretty sure I have done buisness with these people before. (the names and town sound vary familier to me.) to bad for them.but damn 95,000 bucks in 15 months isn't a bad amount of scratch. I've often wondered how much those backup sellers make. oh yeah and they are from canada, I thought you canadians were immune to this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Damn...but there were bound to get caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoshi Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Two Charged in Making and Selling Counterfeit Xboxshould be called selling counterfeit games not conterfeit x box i was actually thinking they made a fake x box yeah these things arent new, i mean its not public, the counterfeit business, and if you look correctly you might find people secretly selling counterfeit games near you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 The topic title didn't say Games because it couldn't fit. I added it into the description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted January 21, 2005 Author Share Posted January 21, 2005 great jorb, thanks gryph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 why in god name a female is one of the suspect ? thats just too rare and unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 they were prolly living together so she got caught up in the investigation. just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForceX Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 They have to be the stupidest people in the entire world...selling copied games over the internet and thinking that they wouldn't be caught... Thats worse than the guy who robbed my mates house only to leave his wallet with his drivers license behind.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 They have to be the stupidest people in the entire world...selling copied games over the internet and thinking that they wouldn't be caught... Thats worse than the guy who robbed my mates house only to leave his wallet with his drivers license behind....<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hahahaha! That's pretty damn stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 Selling it on the internet! Of course it would attract attention. How could they possibly think otherwise? They would have been smarter to run the operation for a year then close up shop, or change the name or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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