‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling Windows restore disks

Re:‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling W... by rightos on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:26PM (#16925726)

What the hell is going on here? Doesn't Microsoft offer similar for free download from their own website? I seem to remember their media creation tool not prompting for a key until install time. Why on earth would they fight this?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling W... by gh02t on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:39PM (#16925869)

There's another article on HN right now about it, one of the comments provides some insight:

  He was not providing people with restore media they could use to 
  fix their own machines. He was taking the restore media, burning 
  it onto discs _with official Microsoft and Dell logos on them 
  and then selling them to computer refurbishers who would then include them with PCs 
  they were selling.

If that's true then I think it provides some justification. It's at least infringing on trademarks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16923178

[ Parent | on HN ]