Chinese national jailed for 12 years in US for US$100 million software piracy

A Chinese national has been sentenced to 12 years in a US prison for selling more than US$100 million worth of software pirated from American companies from his home in Chengdu .

Li Xiang, 36, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, after pleading guilty to copyright and wire fraud conspiracy charges in connection with software sales from his China-based website, prosecutors said in a release.

American agents posed as potential business partners and lured him from the mainland onto US territory to arrest him.

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