7 Oct
2019
7 Oct
'19
10:40 a.m.
"In 2013, federal authorities intercepted
shipments of 28,000 restore
discs that Lundgren had manufactured in China and sent to his sales
partner in Florida. The discs had labels nearly identical to the discs
provided by Dell for its computers and had the Windows and Dell logos.
?If I had just written ?Eric?s Restore Disc? on there, it would have
been fine,? Lundgren said."
No duh! Why would you fake the Dell/MS Logos? How does that help the consumer, who is so
clueless they can't get restore disk on their own, vs. a label that says "Restore
Disc for Dell Optiplex Blah Blah"
I think he should not have gone to jail, this is a civil matter.
However what he did was wrong and it badly affected the recycling
business as a whole. Now other people are not wanting to persue
recycled computers
I am not sure about that. It does put some more scrutiny on the business and frankly keeps
the unnecessary "creativity" out. As this is a copyright infringement I believe
there are both civil and criminal penalties so jail is possible (and was given). Of course
the sanity of that is a whole other argument.
-Ali