E-Waste Innovator Will Go to Jail for Making Windows Restore Disks

[montrose]

https://gizmodo.com/e-waste-innovator-will-go-to-jail-for-selling-windows-r-1825518742

[mwnivek]

Larger discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634

[dleslie]

The real crime was undermining Microsoft's cycle for selling new licenses.

[vivekd]

>As a result, Lundgren pleaded guilty to two of 21 charges, conspiracy and copyright infringement

I don't understand why he pleaded guilty - the testimony about the data being worth 0 means nothing with a plea of guilty.

[rapnie]

big business against small people with great ideas..