There is a place in the Cercado de Lima where creativity, technology and crime meet.
In the rioting and whimsically designed galleries located in the blocks 11, 12 and 13 of the Avenue Garcilaso de la Vega , and those of the surrounding routes, one of concentrates the largest deals of pirated software capital.
In the exteriors of these galleries, ‘pullers’ do not stop to offer programs ranging from the latest version of Microsoft Office to the most popular video games.
, “Friend, here are also databases, email hacking, Facebook and WhatsApp are made,” he muttered half last week one of them, realizing that knows you it does is illegal.
“By recovering a month of talks in WhatsApp, the price is S / .60. The program to find all your conversations victim costs S / .10 more, “says the ‘puller’. He has taken his work in a makeshift office, under a karate academy for children in the block 12 Avenue Garcilaso de la Vega.
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Penalties for Lie
The realm of the crooked has punishment. As for databases offered -this Journal and noticed this problem in a report last January, the sale is a violation of the Law on Personal Data Protection, which is punishable by fines of between 0.5 UIT (S / .1.925) and 100 UIT (S / .385.000).
According to the Criminal Code, improper treatment (copy, trafficking and sale) of the databases is punishable by up to five years in prison.
The illegal use of software (hack) is punishable by fines of up to 180 UIT (S / .693.000). According to the Criminal Code, that amounts to a deprivation of freedom of up to eight years.
On October 25, in a joint operation of the Department of Crime Intellectuals of the Fiscal Police and the Public Ministry, were operated only 15 seats in the gallery Compuplaza, located in block 12 Garcilaso de la Vega and has over 100 stalls. The value of seized pirated material amounted to S / 5.4 million. 15 000 units of pirated CDs were seized. In so far this year, pirated software seized in the country is equivalent to S / 15,000,000.
Hector Figari, director of the legal department of Microsoft in Peru, told El Comercio that software piracy is a crime socially acceptable in the country, “making it difficult to reduce.”
“This problem not only affects businesses. We could have local developers if there would be less risk of being pirated programs, for creativity there. The ratio of global piracy is 43%, are here in 65%, which is a very high level, “said Figari.
Other works
In the area covered, Trade recorded 20 galleries that not only engaged in the sale of computer programs. In them there are also booths where local designs graphics and prints where billboards are made are made.
In these malls and improvised tiny workshops where computers are assembled from scratch and ‘relive’ shows some of so-called blighted. Also filled printer cartridges for all brands.
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