
Computer crimes in Ukraine
Date: July 14, 2004Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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At that, more than 25% of these crimes somehow or other were related to software copyright violation. March 2003, law enforcement brought to court a case violating article 176, part 2 (selling CDs with pirate production). The estimated damage amounted about 200,000 UAH ($37,000).
Yet this sum on a scale of a region illustrates the vim of piracy in the country. Citizens charged with such crimes are, as a rule, not related to traditional criminality and have not been prosecuted yet. The majority of them haven't reached 30 years, have higher education.

