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Anybody "fined for selling counterfeit Microsoft software" almost certainly ran a whitebox computer shop, and was successful enough to get noticed and charged i
by Sophistifunk 5y ago
Anybody "fined for selling counterfeit Microsoft software" almost certainly ran a whitebox computer shop, and was successful enough to get noticed and charged in a period where almost everybody's home computers ran pirated Windows and you could buy it on any street corner. In Italy to boot.
- scrubs 5y agoBold! Bold pushback! To use a Fawlty Towers Basil line: "Sooo .... that's all sorted out" knowing full-well it isn't. Don't know Fawlty Towers? Let's go the Monthy Python direction: JC: "It's not much of a bank." MP: "Well, it's very clean, sir" JC: "It's certainly uncontaminated by crypto-backed dollars." Now I enjoy American TV too but I can't think of an All-in-the-Family, Nightcourt, or Scubbs scene here. But if you know the "aaaaannnnnnnd it's gone" ... line well you can riff from there.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI was thinking more of the tethered https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/us-the-tethered-explained/ https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/us-the-tethered-explained/
- FormerBandmate 5y agoYeah, it was common, but that doesn’t exactly help his case to regulate a currency taken as an equivalent of the US Dollar
- dandanua 5y agoI think his experience fits nicely the job of running "counterfeit US Dollar"
- Sophistifunk 5y agoNot arguing that, just saying he probably did run a successful electronics business for some time.