The story is misleading. It say's that Comet sold 94k counterfeit Windows CD's.

Comet seem to say that as manufacturers stopped packaging computer's with CD's they decided to make their own.

Assuming this is true. Each computer had a valid Windows license. Comet decided to burn the CD's itself so users didn't have to try to make their own recovery disks.

I don't seem the harm. I mean.. users can make their own recovery disc's anyway can't they? Comet was just saving them a step?