Popular Fiction Magazine [v2 #6, February 1932] (Metropolitan Publishers Inc., 10¢, 132 pages, cover by B. Eric Lundgren) 

Formally "Man Stories"

What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? · I. L. Paddock The Ocean Bastille · H. Bedford-Jones Master in Sail · Jacland Marmur Singin’ Sam · Cyril Plunkett The Better Man · Bob du Soe The Island of Life · J. B. Ryan Bombs for the General · Horace McCoy The “Plant” · Earl C. Parker White Heat · G. H. Vace

No honey, he wasn’t

Long reply incoming

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Here you have emails from Eric in which he flat out states they’re counterfeit and that he’s going to ‘trick’ customs (which is a crime btw). He admits to going to China to set up the counter fitters.

I already wrote a reply on this so I’m just gonna copy pasta:

Alright, I’m gonna be ‘that guy’.

This post is severely misleading about the real situation. He wasn’t just some dude trying to fix old computers. He was counterfitting MS software intentionally, importing it illegally into the US and then selling it as if if it was legit.

Mr. Lundgren’s scheme was simple. He was counterfeiting Windows software in China and importing it to the United States. Mr. Lundgren intended the software to be sold to the refurbisher community as if it was a legitimate, licensed copy of Windows. It was not. The evidence in the case shows Mr. Lundgren used his knowledge of the PC recycling community to scam the very community he claimed to champion and to evade the law. Had he simply wanted to help this community, why did he set up an entire counterfeit production operation in China to make the CDs appear legitimate? And why did he charge for his counterfeit product and try to make a profit at the expense of the community he was ostensibly trying to help?

Source. Yes, I know it’s Microsoft, but the post is riddled with sources and court documents.

Now don’t get me wrong, I work in IT. I am 1000000% behind Right to Repair. But this wasn’t a case of some mom and pop shop fixing old PCs to help people out. It’s the case of a counterfeiter who deliberately fooled customers and customs by passing off fakes as real and profiting highly from them.

SO he’s not in jail because he ‘recycled’. He’s in jail because he knowingly built a counterfeiting operation and knowingly sold fake software to the community (that he claimed to want to help) for a profit.

Please check out the source before spreading this more. If nothing else, read the emails from Mr. Lunden where he flat out states things like “customs can’t tell the difference hehe” and “if they call you play stupid” . He talks about how he has tricks to fool customs and how the customers won’t know it’s fake.

Recycling This Resource Can Get You Thrown into Prison

by Steve Eastman, Wait Til You Hear This

We don’t have to look far to encounter this common request ─ “Please Recycle.” I saw the message the other day as I walked past a dumpster. But strangely enough, our environmental efforts are punished when we recycle a computer.

Music credit: lavelman, http://www.freesfx.co.uk

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Lundgren, 33, has become a renowned innovator in the field of “e-waste,” using discarded parts to construct things such as an electric car, which far outdistanced a Tesla in a test on one charge. He built the first “electronic hybrid recycling” facility in the United States, which turns discarded cellphones and other electronics into functional devices, slowing the stream of harmful chemicals and metals into landfills and the environment. His California-based company processes more than 41 million pounds of e-waste each year and counts IBM, Motorola and Sprint among its clients.

Lundgren lived in China, learning about the stream of e-waste and finding ways to send cheap parts to America to keep electronics running. One of his projects was to manufacture thousands of “restore disks,” usually supplied by computer-makers as a way for users to restore Windows to a hard drive if it crashes or must be wiped. The disks can be used only on a computer that already has a license for the Windows operating system. But computer owners often lose or throw out the disks, and though the operating system can be downloaded free on a licensed computer, Lundgren realized that many people didn’t feel competent to do that, and were simply throwing out their computers and buying new ones.

Lundgren had 28,000 of the disks made and shipped to a broker in Florida. Their plan was to sell the disks to computer refurbishing shops for about 25 cents apiece, so the refurbishers could provide the disks to used-computer buyers and wouldn’t have to take the time to create the disks themselves. In turn, the new users might be able to use the disks to keep their computers going the next time a problem occurred.

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But in 2012, U.S. customs officers seized a shipment and began investigating. The disks were never sold. Eventually, the Florida broker, Robert Wolff, called Lundgren and offered to buy the disks himself as part of a government sting, Lundgren said. Wolff sent Lundgren $3,400, and the conspiracy was cemented. Both were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and criminal copyright infringement. Wolff made a plea deal and received a six-month home-arrest sentence.

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Lundgren pleaded guilty but argued that the value of his disks was zero, so there was no harm to anyone. Neither Microsoft nor any computer manufacturers sell restore disks. They supply them free with new computers and make the software available for free downloading for those who have paid for the software and received a license — typically a sticker with a “Certificate of Authenticity” number on it. Lundgren said that he was trying to make the disks available for those who needed them and that they could be used only on licensed computers.

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It behooves me to begin this review by asking you to think about the place you grew up. Do you have it? Can you think of every street, every tree, every crack in the pavement, the haunts of your childhood, the memories on every corner? Great.