It is. He ended up serving 15 months in prison for making rescue disks that were based on downloadable software that required licence keys that the PCs that he refurbished already had.
It's a complex.case and the judge didn't understand the actual value of the media which was zero. Sadly technically he did breach copyright. So lesson to learn. Stay away from software giants who have bigger bankrolls than you do. On Mon, 7 Oct. 2019, 8:33 pm Dave Wade via cctalk, <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Note:- This storey is a year old... > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. > Worley > > via cctalk > > Sent: 07 October 2019 04:24 > > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > > Subject: Nuke Redmond! > > > > A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to > prison. > > Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is not free. > You can > > download the air and install the air and use the air, but noone can help > you do > > it or they will spend 15months in federal prison and pay 3/4 of a > million beans > > in damages for helping you and charging nothing for it but a quarter for > the > > electricity it cost to put the air in. > > > > > https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyright- > > 20180426- > > story.html?fbclid=IwAR3v6MDIUWtqyUxcupT7YQOaX5a7bzrKZKAZWKQFYkdzbg > > 9xvWhvRVkSuq4 > > > > Jeff > > >
