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- #BACK ORIFICE FOR WINDOWS 7 FREE DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD#
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Prosecutors, idiotically, initially argued they were worth the full price of Windows itself ($300). Again, Microsoft gives these away for free. He argued, reasonably, that the value is zero.
The key issue in the appeal was over the actual “value” of the discs that Lundgren made. It is depressing that vindictive, idiotic Microsoft combined with technically clueless judges can lead to a result that puts a good man in jail for doing nothing wrong. Instead, Microsoft sided with the US government and continues to do so to this day.īut beyond being pissed off at Microsoft, we should be pissed off at clueless judges: 11th Circuit Judges William Pryor, Beverly Martin and Lanier Anderson (average age: 66) rejected Lundgren’s appeal in 8 short pages of wrongness. Here’s where Microsoft should have stepped in and said “this is all a mistake” and noted that Lundgren was actually doing a good thing and exactly what Microsoft should be encouraging. Lundgren was arrested as part of a government sting when the customs officials spotted the thousands of discs he’d manufactured and just assumed they were pirated. When we left things last month, we were waiting for the 11th Circuit Appeals Court to consider Lundgren’s appeal - and astoundingly this week the judges, demonstrating near total ignorance of technology and the actual legal issues - rejected his appeal, which means Lundgren is going to jail for over a year for trying to do some good in the world, helping people get the exact same thing that Microsoft is offering for free, and which no one could use unless they’d already paid Microsoft its tax. He was being helpful.īut Microsoft insisted that he was not just infringing on their copyrights civilly, but criminally.
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It might be helpful to manufacture a bunch of these recovery discs and offer them to repair shops to help people who were unable to download the recovery discs themselves. He’s spent years doing amazing things, recycling computers and helping them last longer. Lundgren is not some fly-by-night pirate. But, that’s still complex enough, and Eric Lundgren had a solution. Then people realized it was wasteful to ship all that - combined with enough broadband to make it easy enough to download and burn the files, and Microsoft then just made it easy to do that.
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You still needed your license to make them work, of course. Way back when, these were the discs that usually shipped with new computers in case you needed to reinstall Windows.
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Let me repeat that: Microsoft helped put someone in jail for criminal infringement over software that anyone can get for free ( here, go get it), and which won’t function unless you’ve paid Microsoft their due.Īt issue are Windows recovery discs. Last month we had the basic story of how Microsoft had helped to get a computer recycler sentenced to 15 months in jail for “counterfeiting” software that it gives away for free, and which is useless unless you have an official paid-for license from Microsoft. This story should make you very, very angry. Fri, Apr 27th 2018 06:22am - Mike Masnick
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