Microsoft responds to Eric Lundgren case

As a follow-up to the story about Eric Lundgren being sentenced to prison, Microsoft published a blog post with "the facts" about the case.In the last few days there have been several stories about the sentencing of Eric Lundgren in a case that began in 2012, and we have received a number of questions about this case and our role in it. Although the case was not one that we brought, the questions raised recently have caused us to carefully review the publicly available court documents. All of the information we are sharing in this blog is drawn from those documents. We are sharing this information now and responding publicly because we believe both Microsoftis role in the case and the facts themselves are being misrepresented.As a counterpoint to Microsoft's blog post, Techcrunch's Devin Coldewey claims Microsoft is trying to spin "the facts".Earlier this week Eric Lundgren was sentenced to 15 months in prison for selling what Microsoft claimed was "counterfeit software", but which was in fact only recovery CDs loaded with data anyone can download for free. The company has now put up a blog post setting "the facts" straight, though it's something of a limited set of those facts."We are sharing this information now and responding publicly because we believe both Microsoft's role in the case and the facts themselves are being misrepresented," the company wrote. But it carefully avoids the deliberate misconception about software that it promulgated in court.At this point, we've covered all the possible angles on this story.