Med Student Turns to Test-Prep Piracy

January 27th, 2010 admin

Going to medical school can be expensive. So Kenneth Chou, a 30-year-old student at SUNY Upstate Medical University in New York, decided to copy Kaplan lecture DVDs from his school’s library and resell them online to help pay for his tuition. Chou admitted to raking in more than $100,000 for the pirated materials, but is now facing a fine that is four times that…


Originally posted on Wired

 
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