
Ukraine declares a war on piracy
Date: May 19, 2004Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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More than 25% of these crimes, in some or another way, are related to violating copyright on software. In March 2003 law enforcement brought a criminal case to court on the offence violating article 176 of the CC (selling compact disks with counterfeit products) with UAH 200 thousand (about $40 thousand) of caused damage.
This only sum, in the scale of the region, illustrates a scope of computer piracy in Ukraine. Civilians accused of such crimes, as a rule, were not prosecuted and connected to criminality earlier; the majority of them didn't reach their thirtieth, have high education.

