Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Eric Lundgren Microsoft followup u0026 clarification" video.

  1. Well... I don't think you were wrong on the last video Louis, nor I understood that you were saying he's completely innocent. Just that the punishment didn't fit the crime, which it really doesn't. At least I never heard of a case, like ever, of someone going to jail for over a year for trademark infringement - which seems it's one thing he might be guilty of. Heck, I'm not sure even a professional pirate selling Windows disks with a pirated key printed on the label would've gotten that much. It sounds like Microsoft tried to characterize his crime as straight piracy, but it's quite obvious that it wasn't the case. Even in more clear cut cases when someone uses another business logo for profit, 15 months in jail seems completely absurd. 15 months in jail sounds more like someone going to Microsoft, punching the CEO or something, and making death threats - which is something I'd have done if I was an investor. Though even that would more likely result in a restraining order, lawsuit and fine. And again, inversion of values. It's not only that the guy was actually making a favor for people who would be getting the recycled computers, it's that he was actually making something that helps solving a huge problem in the industry that Microsoft does jackshit about: eWaste. Well, like Louis and several others in this community also do. Microsoft should actually be paying this guy for his service. But quite frankly, I expect exactly this from the current US justice system and the current administration. Just recently, a cop shot a photographer because he thought the tripod he was carrying was a gun, and the cop got out of it without being blamed for using excessive force. It was a reasonable suspicion for the courts. Only that apart from being a long black object, there is nothing that makes a camera tripod look like a gun. Should the public expect cops to just come shooting people now because they are carrying stuff like that? US now has a whole ton of completely ignorant, or completely biased politicians leading most major positions among regulatory bodies and secretaries through the entire spectrum. There has been a huge inversion of values going on in recent years that baffles me. It's not that things are great in my country... like, we have our own share of stranger than fiction stuff, but I didn't expect the US to stoop so low on certain things... I really didn't. But I went completely off topic. This is more bad press for Microsoft, deserved bad press, that is just stupid. This news is going to cost Microsoft way more than if Eric was just selling a ton of pirated Windows 10 copies, which he wasn't. I hope the press drills people from there as much as possible, because this whole thing is f*cking shameful.
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