Like he said in his defense, if he had labeled it "Eric's Restore Disc" instead of putting the Dell and Windows logo on it, he probably would have skirted any r

Like he said in his defense, if he had labeled it "Eric's Restore Disc" instead of putting the Dell and Windows logo on it, he probably would have skirted any real repercussions. I felt kind of bad about him going to prison until I read this, but that is some classic reasoning. When somebody is capable of justifying their criminality by just imagining away the main thing that makes it criminal, you need prison to tell them, yes, really, you can't do that. "If it had just been a mule deer instead of an endangered species...." "If I had just made the trades with my money instead of my clients' money...." We use prison for a lot of purposes that it sucks at, but teaching people that they can't just yadda-yadda a crime away seems like a good use for it.