within two years, in march 2006, microsoft filed a lawsuit against the then 18-year-old willms, accusing him of dealing in large amounts of "counterfeit, tampered and/or infringing" copies of microsoft’s products. through a court order, microsoft went through willms’ paypal account and discovered that it contained more than $200,000. microsoft also reviewed edirect’s software inventories, where they found approximately 66,000 questionable microsoft products. in february 2007, willms agreed to a six-figure settlement.