 Court orders movie bootlegger to install Windows |
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| Court orders movie bootlegger to install Windows |
 Aug 27 2007, 08:50 AM
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070...to-windows.html
Guy serves five months in prison for uploading a copy of Revenge of the Sith to a torrent site; as a condition of his parole, he’s required to install monitoring software on his computer. He can choose whatever OS he wants as long as it’s Windows, since that’s the only OS the monitoring software works on. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Aug 27 2007, 09:24 AM
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 From Atlantis to Interzone Group: Global Moderators Posts: 2,512 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Somewhere in space and time Member No.: 65 |
Utterly retarded.
-------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM)  Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Aug 27 2007, 10:19 AM
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so should the state be more accomodating in the guys sentence and have monitoring software in linux and OSX? gimme a break.
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Aug 27 2007, 10:28 AM
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i'm sure the guy can go buy a laptop and put linux on it, just don't tell your probation officer or the gov/law that you have a second computer, problem solved
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Aug 27 2007, 10:49 AM
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From Atlantis to Interzone Group: Global Moderators Posts: 2,512 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Somewhere in space and time Member No.: 65 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Aug 27 2007, 11:19 AM) so should the state be more accomodating in the guys sentence and have monitoring software in linux and OSX? Yes. Justice should be vendor-neutral. -------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM) Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Aug 27 2007, 11:12 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,403 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Aug 27 2007, 11:19 AM) so should the state be more accomodating in the guys sentence and have monitoring software in linux and OSX? gimme a break. I am sure if his sentence was to use OSX only you'd have a fit. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Aug 27 2007, 11:34 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
heh naw i think that'd be a pretty good punishment
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