we sent a western payment to xiang li for these two programs. same thing. download links later that day. li was highly responsive. he was extremely attentive to customer relations. he would do whatever we needed him to do as long as we first paid him the money. >> that's the thing we noticed about him is that he was all about the money. >> so we downloaded the programs on to our laptop. we knew out to san jose, met with the km. they looked at it and they figured out that this was a worki working copy of their program. again, he had cracked the license file to make it work. this software tested the structural integrity of airplanes, of spacecraft, crack 99 was selling it as if it was a microsoft office suite. >> i was becoming increasingly concerned about the implications of the crack 99 operation. the biggest question for all of us was where did this come from? how did he get it? >> we didn't know if crack 99 was a large number of people hacking into u.s. servers. we didn't know if he had in-house crackers, meepg people who crack the licensing file to enable