Meet the E-Waste Recycler Jailed for a Year for Infringing Microsoft's Copyright

Meet the E-Waste Recycler Jailed for a Year for Infringing Microsoft's Copyright

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyz8y9/meet-the-e-waste-recycler-jailed-for-a-year-for-infringing-microsofts-copyright

Prison didn’t seem to change Eric Lundgren.

The entrepreneur and right-to-repair advocate just finished serving a prison sentence for making and selling 28,000 copies of Microsoft restore CDs—a disc that lets users restore their computers to factory settings. Microsoft gives these discs away for free on the internet, but the company testified in court that Lundgren had conspired to traffic in counterfeit goods and infringed its copyright. Lundrgen said he just wanted to help people extend the life of their computers.