People's take on this is depressingly cringeworthy. Prison time was for trying to pass CDs as genuine Microsoft media. Imagine this: You go to one of these sho

People's take on this is depressingly cringeworthy. Prison time was for trying to pass CDs as genuine Microsoft media. Imagine this: You go to one of these shops looking to buy a new computer, you ask to get genuine copy of Windows. The shop can't guarantee genuine copy because they haven't compared hashes of these bootleg CDs with the ones published on Microsoft's website. If they did they would burn them themselves. Customers were unnecessarily put at risk because data on those disk wasn't assured to be genuine. That's why damages aren't based on manufacturing price but price customers paid for the genuine product. If you asked me I wouldn't fault them if they added damages for compromising combined purchases because people don't normally buy just software license but packages of hardware with genuine software. And the sad cringe is in the fact that when EVEN you people don't see why chain of custody is incredibly important then you can't expect all these shop owners to be any better.