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Police report record seizure

Monday, Nov. 19, 2001 | 10:09 a.m.

WHITTIER, Calif. -- Authorities said Friday they had made the largest seizure of counterfeit computer software in U.S. history, material worth an estimated $100 million.

The haul included nearly 31,000 phony copies of Microsoft's Windows Millennium edition and the Windows 2000 Professional operating system. There were also tens of thousands of copies of Symantec products, including the popular Norton antivirus software.

The products originated in Taiwan and came complete with counterfeit packaging, manuals and authentication that included holographic stamps and registration codes. Some even carried the warning, "Do not make illegal copies of this disc" and urged consumers to contact Microsoft with concerns about piracy.

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