Friday 27 April 2018

E-waste guru going to prison says Microsoft targeting refurbishers is ‘harmful to society’

Eric Lundgren is resigned to doing prison time. After spending his life working on e-waste recycling programs, Lundgren was arrested and charged with “counterfeiting” Microsoft restore discs, part of a controversial, years-long legal fight that ended this week when an appeals court declined to overturn a lower court’s decision.

Lundgren, who’s also an electric vehicle inventor, ordered a shipment of the discs and provided them to a Florida broker, with plans to move them on to computer refurbishers. The broker eventually asked Lundgren to personally purchase them instead — only for Lundgren to discover the sale was part of a government sting operation.

In court, Lundgren pleaded guilty but argued that the value of the discs was zero, as...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/27/17286810/e-waste-recycling-microsoft-eric-lundgren-prison-restore-discs

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/04/e-waste-guru-going-to-prison-says.html

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