Fair enough I only saw the 25c price not the "$3.25", however I cannot find the $92,000 figure, where did they pull that from? i'm wondering if they are mincing "business revenue" with "counterfeit revenue", they seemed happy enough to mix physical goods fraud terms to IP and not the reverse so I wouldn't put it past them.
In the article the only reference to making more than 25c per disc is:
> Records, however, show that Lundgren had sold several thousand to one buyer for $3-4 each
But "several thousand" * ~$3 doesn't sound much like 92k.
> I don't know how much an average HN user is gaining, but that is a lot of money for me.
Me too, but note that the term revenue is often used ambiguously and does not necessarily refer to net income, often people abuse this to inflate or deflate the number to help their narrative. _If_ that is the case here then 90k gross for a sole proprietor could be quite a low income depending on the margin... then again if this figure is really all about the discs, then ~90k - (flights + manufacturing run + shipping) could be quite profitable.
I can't find the real figures, happy if someone can enlighten us.
To be honest I don't have much empathy with this guy i'm just playing devils advocate now... My main argument was against your implication that hurting a business's revenue is automatically illegal, which is very close to saying capitalism is law. Perhaps you didn't realize you were implying that. The fact that this guy may or may not have profited from this is separate from the legality of the impact of restoring bought and paid for software against microsoft's profits, it's an important distinction.
Again just to be clear: Microsoft's loss should have no bearing on this case (because they are legal), the case is about someone potentially making money off something they shouldn't, much like selling GNU software (I know that comparison seems rediculous but I'm trying to highlight the separation of illegal profit from legal losses).
In the article the only reference to making more than 25c per disc is:
> Records, however, show that Lundgren had sold several thousand to one buyer for $3-4 each
But "several thousand" * ~$3 doesn't sound much like 92k.
> I don't know how much an average HN user is gaining, but that is a lot of money for me.
Me too, but note that the term revenue is often used ambiguously and does not necessarily refer to net income, often people abuse this to inflate or deflate the number to help their narrative. _If_ that is the case here then 90k gross for a sole proprietor could be quite a low income depending on the margin... then again if this figure is really all about the discs, then ~90k - (flights + manufacturing run + shipping) could be quite profitable.
I can't find the real figures, happy if someone can enlighten us.
To be honest I don't have much empathy with this guy i'm just playing devils advocate now... My main argument was against your implication that hurting a business's revenue is automatically illegal, which is very close to saying capitalism is law. Perhaps you didn't realize you were implying that. The fact that this guy may or may not have profited from this is separate from the legality of the impact of restoring bought and paid for software against microsoft's profits, it's an important distinction.
Again just to be clear: Microsoft's loss should have no bearing on this case (because they are legal), the case is about someone potentially making money off something they shouldn't, much like selling GNU software (I know that comparison seems rediculous but I'm trying to highlight the separation of illegal profit from legal losses).