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April 25, 2018 11:50 pm GMT
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zcHUfpPMSdE/
How Microsoft helped imprison a man for counterfeiting software it gives away for free
In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft's bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense, Eric Lundgren will spend 15 months in prison for selling discs that let people reinstall Windows on licensed machines. A federal appeals court this week upheld the sentence handed down in ignorance by a Florida district judge, for a crime the man never committed.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zcHUfpPMSdE/
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