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> >The original Microsoft (COA) attached to the PC does not allow you to reload Microsoft Windows software when no original recovery media is present. Thank y
by sevensor 9y ago
> >The original Microsoft (COA) attached to the PC does not allow you to reload Microsoft Windows software when no original recovery media is present.
Thank you for digging this up. This is an important point, and I think a lot of us, including myself and the hapless recycler, have naively assumed that sticker plus iso equals a legit install in Microsoft's eyes. Nevertheless, it's still a travesty that he was convicted for this.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> it's still a travesty that he was convicted for this Conviction seems fine. The fine is debatable but roughly okay. It’s the jail time that makes no sense.
- treis 9y agoOh come on. He wasn't a hapless recycler. He was the CEO of a 100 person for profit company processing 41 million pounds of stuff from IBM, Motorola, and Sprint. He knew exactly what he was doing. Who do you think he was intending to sell these CDs to? His own company, of course. And why? To increase his profit by $25 a computer. There's no other logical explanation. No one would go through the trouble of exactly replicating a physical CD with logos and all unless they had nefarious intentions.
- sevensor 9y agoThe article I read had him selling them for $0.25 per computer. $25 was the figure the court arrived at for the value of each disk. Other than that, your point is well taken. The portrayal of this guy as totally naive and well-intentioned is suspect.
- learc83 9y ago$25 per computer is how much MS charges refurbishers, the GP's theory is that he intended to sell them to his own refurbishment company in order to save the $25 fee they'd otherwise have had to pay MS.