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I don't see your point. You can't use the disks without already possessing a license to use the disks. Without a license, the disks are useless - unless you b
by RIMR 9y ago
I don't see your point. You can't use the disks without already possessing a license to use the disks. Without a license, the disks are useless - unless you buy a license.
It's not like he was giving people keygens and cracks. He was just giving them the disc, burned from an ISO available for free on Microsoft's website, for the price of the blank medium used - and then giving people the information they needed to use their existing license rather than purchase a new one.
His crime appears to have been limiting Microsoft's ability to get people to pay for excessive licenses.
- usaphp 9y agoHe was taking the restore media, burning it onto discs _with official Microsoft and Dell logos on them_ and then _selling them to computer refurbishers who would then include them with PCs they were selling._ In other words, people were buying PCs with these counterfeit restore discs passed off as actual Dell/Microsoft product.