> "In 2013, federal authorities intercepted shipments of 28,000 restore > discs that Lundgren had manufactured in China and sent to his sales > partner in Florida. The discs had labels nearly identical to the discs > provided by Dell for its computers and had the Windows and Dell logos. > “If I had just written ‘Eric’s Restore Disc’ on there, it would have > been fine,” Lundgren said." >
No duh! Why would you fake the Dell/MS Logos? How does that help the consumer, who is so clueless they can't get restore disk on their own, vs. a label that says "Restore Disc for Dell Optiplex Blah Blah" > > I think he should not have gone to jail, this is a civil matter. > However what he did was wrong and it badly affected the recycling > business as a whole. Now other people are not wanting to persue > recycled computers I am not sure about that. It does put some more scrutiny on the business and frankly keeps the unnecessary "creativity" out. As this is a copyright infringement I believe there are both civil and criminal penalties so jail is possible (and was given). Of course the sanity of that is a whole other argument. -Ali
