After further reading, I'm a little less convinced. The $0.25 number comes from the 2nd paragraph of the April 25 2018 Techspot article [1]. According to arsTe

After further reading, I'm a little less convinced. The $0.25 number comes from the 2nd paragraph of the April 25 2018 Techspot article [1]. According to arsTechnica [2] he would spend $80,000 for the disks. 28,000 disks were seized, so if these are the facts he's losing about $2.40 per disk. Seems like either he is not profiting, or there was some higher price negotiated but the government couldn't prove it well enough to get a conviction, or there were a lot more disks hiding somewhere else. [1]https://www.techspot.com/news/74324-e-waste-recycler-eric-lundgren-loses-appeal-must.html https://www.techspot.com/news/74324-e-waste-recycler-eric-lu... [2]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/why-the-man-who-tried-to-sell-windows-recovery-discs-will-go-to-prison/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/why-the-man-who-...