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FYI Microsoft didn't bring the case, ICE did. The main fact which a lot of people seem to be is he made these copies so he could sell them. The same ones you c
by at-fates-hands 8y ago
FYI Microsoft didn't bring the case, ICE did.
The main fact which a lot of people seem to be is he made these copies so he could sell them. The same ones you can get for free from Dell.
Clifford Lundgren pled guilty to conspiring to traffic in counterfeit goods, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2320(a)(1), and criminal copyright infringement, in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 506(a)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. § 2319(a) and (b)(1). Lundgren’s plea related to his role in a scheme in which he created and intended to sell about 28,000 copies of Dell reinstallation discs for Microsoft Windows, without permission from Microsoft.
He was making copies en masse in China then was shipping them back in an effort to resell them. I've read in various places the cost was in the neighborhood of 80K to make the copies. I'm not a business expert, but I don't know many people who put down 80K of their own money to create a product they're going to give away for free.
Customs intercepted the discs when they were shipped and started investigated what was going on.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoOuch. This makes more sense to me than Microsoft going after the man. I would hope they (Microsoft) wouldn't hunt down people doing this sort of thing.
- DanBC 8y agoHe wasn't just making and selling the discs (that people could get for free from the OEM), he was also giving instructions about how to make the discs more accurate copies of the original media, and how to evade customs. https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/FINAL-FILED-BRIEF-11.17.17-004.pdf https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/FIN... https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/2LUNDGREN6.pdf https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/2LU...
- giancarlostoro 8y agoYeah... that guy totally asked for jail time. It sucks because everytime I've read the whole case I missunderstood that it wasn't Microsoft specifically hunting him down and sadly others will make the same mistake as me. I'm someone who respects Microsoft, I cannot imagine people who already distrust Microsoft misunderstanding this completely for years to come.