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The copyright infringement on the packaging is blatant, but valuing recovery disks as full operating system installers is an equally blatant lie.
by SiempreViernes 9y ago
The copyright infringement on the packaging is blatant, but valuing recovery disks as full operating system installers is an equally blatant lie.
- DanBC 9y agoMS valued them at $20 each. He attempted to sell some of them for more than that.
- facetube 9y agoMS values replacement disks for Win 7 Pro at twice that.
- DanBC 9y agoIn this case MS put a value of $20 per disc. The prosecution put a value of $25 per disc - that's the cost to refurbishers of the MS supplied discs. The defence tried to claim that the discs are worthless without the licence, and should be valued at either nothing or $3 each. That defence failed because he spent $80,000 creating the counterfeit product, and you don't spend that much money on worthless items.
- jaycroft 9y agoPeople spend money on "worthless" things all the time, and as a person who wants to reduce e-waste Eric would have plenty reason to spend something like $80000 to further his goal (whether his belief is justified or not). He made 28,000 disks for $80000. That is $2.85 per disk. $3 is a perfectly reasonable value.