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by Karlozkiller 2967 days ago
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.
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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.

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.