When police raided a Florida warehouse in November 1997, it wasn't drugs or even guns that they found. The bounty included almost 900 fake copies of Microsoft Windows and a pair of knock-off Intel microprocessors. Officers were led to the warehouse by undercover operatives employed by Microsoft. The software giant has an office in Fort Lauderdale dedicated solely to combating software piracy in South Florida and Latin America the only such office in existence outside the company's headquarters.
October 01, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
It was a raid like many in South Florida. And it proved successful. Acting on a tip, Miami-Dade police found a Miami warehouse stocked with contraband worth thousands of dollars. Much of it, detectives suspected, was bound for South America.
But what police uncovered in that warehouse in November 1997 wasn’t drugs or even guns. It was counterfeit computer software. The bounty included almost 900 fake copies of Microsoft Windows and a pair of knock-off Intel microprocessors.
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