Roommart member get caught

Got this news from a fren's email asking me is this the guy who started Roommart. At first i thought, he must be getting some new prizes from XXX cup or XXX award again... but I am wrong.. he got a bad luck this time.

This is definately a shocking news for Multimedia University (which the names were not mentioned in the report) and Microsoft Malaysia. Room mart is the startup project that they and Mavcap Cradle fully funded and i can remember how much effort was spend on publicity at the time. I too remember how big was their partition allocation in the startup room located in MMU Incubator, Cyberjaya. They owned 4 partitions, which is 50% of the room, than any others startup.

Is him the guy that I read in previous newspaper: who selling quality DVD (bought from Penang Street) on the Internet, blocking all Malaysian IP, and delivers with DHL? I am not sure, but i admit that i admire that guy for being creative. And I laugh at Malaysia police force that announced they got the collaboration from Australia police force to discover the site... cos the malaysia IP is blocked..

hmm... If you are geek, you will understand this is a joke, coz we all know there is something called proxy.

I think... the guy here is not a MMU student, but he is definately part of Roommart startup.

Well, I am sure room mart is very famous now, but i am sure the CEO is not interested continue the biz now. The last thing i heard about him was that he is selling lamb burger. If you are Malaysia, you will know what I mean.

Sorry for being sarcastic, I neither get any funding from MAVCAP nor award from Microsoft Imagine Cup. I also din get such big partition for miniMAX in the incubator.... :(

Last, my advice to all tech savvy, don't think Malaysia Government is stupid o.... they are watching you and collecting your data quietly, just that they haven't react yet. This is what MR M used to do to his beloved colleague too.

Full story below from Thestar Online:

PENANG: An IT expert was fined a total of RM8,000 after he pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court here to three counts of offering to sell four pirated DVDs over the Internet.

Poh Wee Leng, 30, from Petaling Jaya, was fined RM2,000 for each infringing copy while his friend, Huan Su Ling, 25, who was jointly charged with him, was freed after the prosecution withdrew the charges against her.

FINED: Poh being led out of the Sessions Court in Penang after he pleaded guilty yesterday. Huan (below right) was freed of the charges.

Poh, who is currently pursuing a master's degree in Business Administration, yesterday admitted committing the offences at a house at Solok Tembaga Dua in Island Park here at about 1pm on Oct 12.

He and Huan had claimed trial when they were first charged on Oct 17.

The four titles of the pirated DVDs were Garfield: Tale of Two Kitties, Garfield, The Da Vinci Code and Mean Girl. The two Garfield titles were stated in the first charge.

The offence under the Copyright Act 1987 carries a fine of RM2,000 to RM20,000 per copy or maximum five years' jail or both.

Judge Hadhariah Syed Ismail ordered Poh to serve a total jail term of 18 months if he failed to pay the fine. Poh, who was represented by R.S.N. Rayer, paid up.

Poh was funded by Malaysia Venture Capital Management Bhd (MAVCAP) in 2004 to develop a portal for ROOMMART that allowed users to find roommates and accommodation.

MAVCAP is wholly owned by the Ministry of Finance Inc.

Huan, who is pursuing a master's degree in Computer Science at Universiti Sains Malaysia here, was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal.

She had represented Malaysia at the Imagine Cup in Brazil in 2004 organised by Microsoft.

Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition.