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Re:‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling W... by jph on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:06PM (#16925509)
If you have contacts at Microsoft, please share this with them and ask them to overturn this terrible ruling.

Quote: Microsoft’s lawyer argued to the court that the sales of the disks “displaced Microsoft’s potential sales of genuine operating systems,” while ignoring the fact these disks were inoperable without an existing license paid for or granted by the company. An expert witness testified there was “zero or near zero” monetary value in any of the disks; they were useful mainly as a convenience to users or maintenance technicians.

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