3 New York Pirates busted by Feds
According to this old article that I came across on Internetnews.com, 3 sellers of counterfeit software were busted by undercover Feds a few years back for selling counterfeit software on Craig’s List. They faced up to 5 years in prison but I haven’t found any follow up stories to see what actually happened to them. One of the sellers told the buyer, an undercover agent, that ‘his titles required not only the serial numbers he provided but also a key generator used to gain unauthorized access to a software title’.
This sounds a bit like the scam at The Violent Squirrel only Justin retains control of the key generator and you have to send him a unique code generated by the software in the manual authentication process. It then appears that he enters that code into his key generator and sends you an authentication code. I’m not sure exactly how this works and how Adobe’s authentication process can be defeated like this, so if anyone has more insight on it, post a comment here.
