Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law Today, The Essentials 10th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

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Cyber Crime. Jiri Klimecek was a member of a group that overrode copyright protection in movies and music to make them available for download online. Klimecek bought and installed a server and paid to connect it to the Internet. He knew that users could access the server to upload and download copyrighted works. He obtained access to movies and music to make them available. When charged with copyright infringement, he claimed that he had not understood the full scope of the operation. Did Klimecek commit a crime? Explain. [United States v. Klimecek, __ F.3d __ (7th Cir. 2009)] (See pages 182-183.)