According to The Age, a fellow University of Melbourne alumnus has been convicted of three counts of commercial copyright infringement and fined $20 000 for running a duplication lab in his parents’ home:
Jeffrey Lim, 28, converted the ground floor of his parents’ Doncaster home into a work office that held six hard drives, a computer flat screen, three printers, three DVD burners, three computer towers, four scanners and various printer cartridges.
Lim apparently sold various console games for $4 each using an online mail order website. Ms Tickey for the Crown relied on a tipoff from a PwC investigator and evidence from a police raid of the premises:
The man, who deposited $714 in to Lim’s account, later found that none of the 138 Playstation2 games he received displayed any genuine features.
Lim pleaded guilty. Mr Simpson for the defence argued in mitigation that the piracy business emerged after ‘repeated but failed attempts’ to gain employment in the computer industry.
