[emodendroket]

Perhaps you don't understand. He deliberately set out to deceive people into thinking they were buying genuine MS-produced discs when they were not.

[letsgetphysITal]

But he was charged and convicted based upon unauthorised selling of licensed software, which he wasn't as he didn't sell licenses. What he did and what he was charged with are two separate things, which is what the entire article is about.