7 Oct
2019
7 Oct
'19
3:19 a.m.
It is.
He ended up serving 15 months in prison for making rescue disks that were
based on downloadable software that required licence keys that the PCs that
he refurbished already had.
It's a complex.case and the judge didn't understand the actual value of the
media which was zero.
Sadly technically he did breach copyright.
So lesson to learn.
Stay away from software giants who have bigger bankrolls than you do.
On Mon, 7 Oct. 2019, 8:33 pm Dave Wade via cctalk, <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Note:- This storey is a year old...
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Jeffrey S.
Worley
via cctalk
Sent: 07 October 2019 04:24
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Nuke Redmond!
A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to
prison.
Microsoft claims that the air they give free with
the tire is not free.
You can
download the air and install the air and use the
air, but noone can help
you do
it or they will spend 15months in federal prison
and pay 3/4 of a
million beans
in damages for helping you and charging nothing
for it but a quarter for
the
electricity it cost to put the air in.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyright-
20180426-
story.html?fbclid=IwAR3v6MDIUWtqyUxcupT7YQOaX5a7bzrKZKAZWKQFYkdzbg
9xvWhvRVkSuq4
Jeff