A man who ran a high-volume business selling counterfeit Adobe Systems software online has successfully challenged a judge’s order that he pay the company more than $743,000 in restitution.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a unanimous three-judge ruling, vacated a court order that required the defendant, Gregory Fair, pay Adobe $743,098 the amount equivalent to his sale of pirated software. The government, the appeals court said, failed to show Adobe’s actual losses from the copyright infringement.
