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Did he or did he not seek to make a meaningful profit from this activity? I can't see information on that in the article. Also did he use the downloadable file or did he actually burn from an existing DELL disc? I think there would be software differences potentially there right? I got a reinstallation media sent out from DELL and it definitely seemed customised.

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There are some quotes from his emails here which show he was clearly trying to profit and counterfeit the CDs to make them look exactly like the originals.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...

According to what he says himself in an interview he was selling the CDs 25 cent a piece after paying for production in China and shipping to the US. I don't think you can get much meaningful profit from that.

It's been reported that he earned $28,000 from the transaction.

Yes, he claims that was all the money he ever got from his 'accomplice' for selling a lot of things over several years, including screws and the CDs in question. The CDs according to him were only a minor part of that sum.

Doesn't mean it's necessarily true, for obvious reasons. And one can only hope the court looked through all that as thoroughly as possible.

The 25 cents a piece is total bullshit. His appeal sentencing pretty clearly states how his argument was that the value of damages for each disc was $4, which was the price he was selling them for.

The 25 cents a piece is just some PR bullshit Lundgren is trying to spin in order to come out as the good guy here as he poses in pictures wearing a fedora while he sleeps on a bed made out of counterfeit Dell recovery discs.

He cloned a disk, bit by bit, also the cover /label on the disk was cloned. The disks were not cracked so the user had to input the serial number from the bottom of the laptop

Basically he was making counterfeit restore and Windows installation CDs, which you can just download for free, and distributing them with refurbished PCs he was selling. M$ claimed damages of $25 per CD based on the $25 they charge for their refurbishing program which provides a copy of the install media but also included a new license and participation the M$'s authorized refurbishing program even though no licenses were illegally provided. So now this guy is going to federal prison over what's really a copyright violation.

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