Med Student Turns to Test-Prep Piracy
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 much. He’s also been expelled from school for concocting a scam that elevated him to the status as the leading Kaplan-materials pirate. Chou, a former boy-band member in Taiwan, has been ordered by a federal judge in New York to pay $400,000 to Kaplan in damages and …
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