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I agree with you in principle, but the copyright infringement itself was not even up for debate in this case - he pleaded guilty on that. It's about the damage
by dahauns 8y ago
I agree with you in principle, but the copyright infringement itself was not even up for debate in this case - he pleaded guilty on that.
It's about the damages.
- mbreese 8y agoI agree that the damages seem excessive. But that’s almost an impossible thing to figure out. On one hand, it’s free to download. On the other - there maybe some value to Microsoft to know who is using that recovery tool. There probably is some lost license revenue too. But how do you calculate that? I hope that aspect get appealed and a more reasonable punishment is found. From my reading though, it didn’t seem like he did plead guilty to the copyright infringement of the data, only the logos. I don’t know what all of the counts were, but he only plead to a subset of them. And going in, his press interviews seemed to suggest that he didn’t quite get what the problem was. But again, the punishment seems really harsh.