[scandox]

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.

[belltaco]

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...

[Karlozkiller]

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.

[Hamuko]

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.

[criddell]

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

[Karlozkiller]

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.

[simion314]

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

[microwavecamera]

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.