A woman described as a major player in a worldwide computer software piracy organization was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday and ordered to pay $11 million in restitution to software giants Microsoft and Symantec.
Lisa Chen, 52, pleaded no contest to one count of failure to disclose the origin of a recording or product. She was one of four people arrested in November 2001 as part of a ring suspected of importing nearly $98 million in counterfeit computer products and software from Taiwan.
"The counterfeit seized in this investigation was high-quality," said Pat Mueller, senior investigator with Microsoft. "It takes tremendous technical capability to do this."
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