There are about three or four lies on there, which anybody familiar with the computer recycling business can confirm.
Microsoft had no potential sales of genuine operating systems through this conduct because any license these discs would have been useful for was affixed to the computer and not included with the counterfeit discs. Hence, the loss and restitution amount were falsely stated.
As to the fanciful notion that Microsoft was somehow called in at the 11th hour, with zero involvement in the case prior to that moment, one would only need to talk to any attorney versed in criminal law to disabuse themselves of it.
Prosecutors don't bring cases they aren't relatively certain they can win- that's why they have a 93+% win rate. That means contacting the "victim" from the get-go to make sure they're willing to cooperate and testify.
