Dive summary:
- Microsoft is suing E-Waste Harvesters, a Phoenix e-waste recycling firm, in federal court for allegedly selling unauthorized copies of its software.
- According to Microsoft, E-Waste Harvesters have repeatedly advertised and sold refurbished computers with pirated copies of XP.
- The suit claims that last September, E-Waste Harvesters distributed computer system with an unauthorized copy of Windows XP to investigators; Microsoft thinks this is not an isolated instance.
From the article:
E-Waste has been "willfully blind" and reckless in ignoring copyrights, writes Microsoft's Phoenix laywer, Rusty Crandall.
Microsoft is playing hardball: It's asking a judge to place all of the profits E-Waste allegedly made by selling computers with the unauthorized software into a trust, which will be analyzed in order to return the "illegal" profits to Microsoft. And the company wants triple damages. ...