It wasnt Fake Stuff. It was real
I know of this case and of the guy personally. He was selling GENUINE MSoft Certificates of Authenticity. Something that was legal up until December 2004. Selling fake or counterfeit has always been illegal, this was not the case.
His business sold them in early 2005 after an undercover FBI agent instructed an employee to sell them to the FBI (After the company was no longer selling them). Thus, setting the guy up. He now gets to do 4 years in jail, forfeit ALL his assets, and is still being sued by Microsoft for 6 million dollars. 6 million in which he does not have and will never be able to pay back. So they will get a judgement and take every penny he makes while working at Burger King after his sentence.
Way to go! Put another hard working little guy in jail for the benefit of the richest company in the world...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
