Three indicted for 'massive' software, music piracy

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Five people arrested for their part in scheme to illegally copy 325,000 software and music CDs

By Grant Gross, IDG News Service
October 13, 2005

Three California men were indicted Wednesday for their alleged participation in a "massive" software and music-CD copying scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.

Arrests in the scheme to illegally copy 325,000 software and music CDs were part of the largest CD manufacturing seizure in the U.S., the U.S. attorney's office said. The indictments follow the arrests of five people and searches of 13 locations in California and Texas on Oct. 6.

Two of the suspects were involved the large-scale replication of Symantec (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. antivirus software, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's office said in a press release. All three were also charged with illegally copying Latin music, the office said.

Indicted late Wednesday were Ye Teng Wen, also known as Michael Wen; Hao He, also known as Kevin He, both of Union City, California; and Yaobin Zhai, also known as Ben Zhai, of Fremont, California.
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