There's another article on HN right now about it, one of the comments provides some insight: He was not providing people with restore media they could use to

There's another article on HN right now about it, one of the comments provides some insight: He was not providing people with restore media they could use to fix their own machines. He 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. If that's true then I think it provides some justification. It's at least infringing on trademarks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16923178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16923178