the FCC showed up at a campus, exercised their right of entry, disconnected our receiver and then changed the locks. Needless to say, it was a fluckercluck.
I suspect they disconnected your transmitter, not the receiver...
Control what you eat (salt, beverage size, etc), Take away your guns, Indoctrinate your children in meaningless head-start programs as soon as they're potty-trained, Regulate waterways that only exist after heavy rains, Force everyone to buy healthcare coverage as dictated by government, Bans books from libraries because they deal factually with historic race relation, Etc?
Microsoft already offers extremely low-cost copies of Windows 7 for sale to computer refurbishers, this fellow chose not to participate in that program apparently.
Well, as I understand the man isn't selling anything. It doesn't qualify as "illegal sales".
Re-read the summary at the top of this article - he produced 28,000 copies of Microsoft software on recovery CDs he hoped to sell to other refurbishers "as a convenience".
The software on the discs was not his to sell or give away - windows recovery discs are not shareware.
OEM install discs are *usually* available from the OEM for what is considered a small, media duplication fee. OEM install discs include device-specific drivers and other licensed software.
It is fucking shameful that a corporation this big would throw a guy that's trying to do some good in jail without understanding how their own OS works.
There are two possibilities:
1) Microsoft lawyers, the defense lawyer, and the judge all have no idea what they are doing, or 2) You are talking out of your hat.
all he did for all intensive purposes was make a backup of a CD that was locked to the systems he clearly had a license for
No. He didn't have 28,000 computers on-hand that needed restore CDs, if he did, you MIGHT have a good argument, but he hired a Chinese CD duplication house to burn 28,000 CDs so that he could sell them to other refurbishers.
Should your friend in that situation then go to jail for giving you a copy to use to restore the computer with a valid license with? 'Cause that's what this case is about.
Except, like so many others on this thread, you ignore the fact that he admitted he wanted to sell the discs. Sell - not give away.
Sounds like he was basically just doing the "locate, download, and burn DVD" step - no new licenses, no breaking of copy protection, just saving people the trouble of finding, downloading and burning the discs themselves.
Except, you forgot to add that he tried to sell them. He wasn't burning and selling CDs of shareware as was so popular in the 1990s, he was burning and selling a disc full of MS software.
for trying to help people restore computers that they legally acquired and are entitled to use.
Seriously, no one has claimed he was fined and threatened with jail time for "trying to help people restore computers" - he tried to sell 28,000 restore CDs.
Microsoft has a program for selling licensed copies of Windows on refurbished computers.
There are multiple choices for free or open source operating systems. The guy could have set up a tidy desktop system with all the web and email features it needs
Of course, he likely would have had to sell his refurbished computers for less money, as a 4 year-old computer without Windows OS is worth less to the average user than one with Windows.
Microsoft has a program for refurbishers, because everyone's understanding that the OEM software license survives any number of private party sales is wrong.
He literally is competing with a Microsoft program, how can he be surprised that MS went after him?
Seriously, you have to at least read the posted summary to comment - OK?
Lundgren does not deny that he made the discs or that he hoped to sell them.
He thought that producing and selling restore discs to computer refurbishers -- saving them the hassle of downloading the software and burning new discs -- would encourage more secondhand sales. In his view, the new owners were entitled to the software, and this just made it easier.
So, do you still think he made 28,000 restore CDs to give away?
Going from 25 to 26, audio just stopped, and hours were spent learning way more about pulse audio than I ever cared to know.
Going from 26 to 27 the DisplayPort output decided it no longer wanted to work on an AMD video card. Spent awhile researching that and eventually rolling a custom kernel until the fix made it to the official fedora kernel.
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the FCC showed up at a campus, exercised their right of entry, disconnected our receiver and then changed the locks. Needless to say, it was a fluckercluck.
I suspect they disconnected your transmitter, not the receiver...
...that guy on the CB is protected unless you can show he's interfering with protected services or running an illegal amplifier.
FTFY
Running an external amp is illegal on CB radios.
You can't have them in you workstation, they make too much noise and are too slow for gaming.
WTF are you smoking?
How "loud" are 3 1/2" drives?
SATA III drives are "too slow" for gaming?
I watch truckloads of SATA HDD roll out of my local Fry's and Microcenter, I don't think everyone buying HDD has a server farm at home.
I'd love to see this in a Full-Height 5 1/4" form factor for my old Pentium P133 server...
So it's conservatives that want to:
Control what you eat (salt, beverage size, etc),
Take away your guns,
Indoctrinate your children in meaningless head-start programs as soon as they're potty-trained,
Regulate waterways that only exist after heavy rains,
Force everyone to buy healthcare coverage as dictated by government,
Bans books from libraries because they deal factually with historic race relation,
Etc?
Think again
Says the fellow that can't imagine liberals remaining in the minority.
If shunning conservatives is OK, then do is shunning liberals... "What's good for the goose..."
So he should stay in SF and not contribute to LA tax base?
"Activist faces prison for feeding hungry"
Activist steals food from grocery store to sell to hungry people, faces prison time.
How is that different from what this electronics recycler did?
(OK, stealing copyright-protected software is not exactly the same as stealing physical food stuffs from a store.)
Microsoft already offers extremely low-cost copies of Windows 7 for sale to computer refurbishers, this fellow chose not to participate in that program apparently.
Well, as I understand the man isn't selling anything. It doesn't qualify as "illegal sales".
Re-read the summary at the top of this article - he produced 28,000 copies of Microsoft software on recovery CDs he hoped to sell to other refurbishers "as a convenience".
The software on the discs was not his to sell or give away - windows recovery discs are not shareware.
Windows 10 install disc that installs with a valid Windows 7/8.1 product key: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
OEM install discs are *usually* available from the OEM for what is considered a small, media duplication fee. OEM install discs include device-specific drivers and other licensed software.
Tell the world that MS wants a line of working/usefull PCS approx 8000 miles long trashed for no good reason
Aproximately how wide are these recycled computers that stretch 8,000 miles?
Quick math: 8,000 miles / 28,000 computers makes each computer about 1/4 mile wide.
What he should do publicly with as much publicity as he can is to install Linux on the old computers.
Installing Linux on older computers isn't news-worthy, no one will care.
It is fucking shameful that a corporation this big would throw a guy that's trying to do some good in jail without understanding how their own OS works.
There are two possibilities:
1) Microsoft lawyers, the defense lawyer, and the judge all have no idea what they are doing, or
2) You are talking out of your hat.
I suspect the latter.
He wanted to sell CDs to other refurbishers that contained Microsoft copyright protected software and had Microsoft logos on the disc.
That's a little different than running unlicensed Windows VMs on a server.
all he did for all intensive purposes was make a backup of a CD that was locked to the systems he clearly had a license for
No. He didn't have 28,000 computers on-hand that needed restore CDs, if he did, you MIGHT have a good argument, but he hired a Chinese CD duplication house to burn 28,000 CDs so that he could sell them to other refurbishers.
Should your friend in that situation then go to jail for giving you a copy to use to restore the computer with a valid license with? 'Cause that's what this case is about.
Except, like so many others on this thread, you ignore the fact that he admitted he wanted to sell the discs. Sell - not give away.
All he did was burn it on a dvd and hand it out as a freebie.
No, he wanted to sell the CDs, not give them away as a "freebie."
Sounds like he was basically just doing the "locate, download, and burn DVD" step - no new licenses, no breaking of copy protection, just saving people the trouble of finding, downloading and burning the discs themselves.
Except, you forgot to add that he tried to sell them. He wasn't burning and selling CDs of shareware as was so popular in the 1990s, he was burning and selling a disc full of MS software.
for trying to help people restore computers that they legally acquired and are entitled to use.
Seriously, no one has claimed he was fined and threatened with jail time for "trying to help people restore computers" - he tried to sell 28,000 restore CDs.
Microsoft has a program for selling licensed copies of Windows on refurbished computers.
There are multiple choices for free or open source operating systems. The guy could have set up a tidy desktop system with all the web and email features it needs
Of course, he likely would have had to sell his refurbished computers for less money, as a 4 year-old computer without Windows OS is worth less to the average user than one with Windows.
Microsoft has a program for refurbishers, because everyone's understanding that the OEM software license survives any number of private party sales is wrong.
He literally is competing with a Microsoft program, how can he be surprised that MS went after him?
Seriously, you have to at least read the posted summary to comment - OK?
Lundgren does not deny that he made the discs or that he hoped to sell them.
He thought that producing and selling restore discs to computer refurbishers -- saving them the hassle of downloading the software and burning new discs -- would encourage more secondhand sales. In his view, the new owners were entitled to the software, and this just made it easier.
So, do you still think he made 28,000 restore CDs to give away?
Holy cow, did it ever occur to him, say after creating 10,000 20,000 illegal copies that MAYBE he should ask Microsoft for permission?
How did he make 28K discs? Did he hire a CD production house or some robot arm drive-feeding machine to make them?
No, he illegally copied copyrighted software and somehow thought his 'intentions' would shield him from prosecution.
His argument is he sold CDs to people that supposedly lost their original CDs - how does that make it all right?
Going from 25 to 26, audio just stopped, and hours were spent learning way more about pulse audio than I ever cared to know.
Going from 26 to 27 the DisplayPort output decided it no longer wanted to work on an AMD video card. Spent awhile researching that and eventually rolling a custom kernel until the fix made it to the official fedora kernel.
Sounds trivial and user-friendly to me...