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Microsoft’s new “Global Anti-Piracy Day” must have Linux users laughing
Ahoy there me timbers, if ye be piratin’ Microsoft software, then ye better start shiverin’ and be warned: Microsoft is comin’ out to make software pirates walk the plank, in a co-ordinated global effort across 49 countries in six continents to “combat the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software”.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21281/1103/
THE SAME DAY that the Microsoft Vole launched its global " Anti Piracy Day" the crazy "pirates" from Sweden that run the Pirate Bay, self defined as the "World's largest BitTorrent tracker" decided to scoff at the software giant's initiative.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/21/pirates-scoff-microsoft-antipiracy-day
Microsoft’s “Don’t Talk Like a Pirate” day
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2810
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Good luck to them, Linux users should support this initiative.
Microsoft software piracy should be stamped out because effective anti-piracy measures by Microsoft will increase Linux and FOSS adoption.
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And also as seasoned hackers we should support the idea that pirates are evil.
Because it destroys legitimate use of BitTorrent services for the distribution of FOSS
Cheers,
Tom
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gn2 (22/10/2008)
Microsoft software piracy should be stamped out because effective anti-piracy measures by Microsoft will increase Linux and FOSS adoption.
So there we have it - confirmation that Linux's "target market " is pirates, thieves, those who have been caught and those who are afraid they might be. What a ridiculous comment (and thread). Piracy is illegal,theft is illegal, any initiative to reduce it should be applauded and not used as yet another childish reason for more pointless nyah nyah nyah M$ bashing.
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BJM (22/10/2008)
gn2 (22/10/2008)
Microsoft software piracy should be stamped out because effective anti-piracy measures by Microsoft will increase Linux and FOSS adoption.
So there we have it - confirmation that Linux's "target market " is pirates, thieves, those who have been caught and those who are afraid they might be.
What a ridiculous comment (and thread).
Piracy is illegal,theft is illegal,any initiative to reduce it should be applauded and not used as yet another childish reason for more pointless nyah nyah nyah M$ bashing.
Hear, hear!
Torrents can be accessed via any OS, as can pirated material. Glad to see MS doing something about piracy, no matter how small 
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Great post Bob!
Cheers,
Tom
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BJM (22/10/2008)
gn2 (22/10/2008)
Microsoft software piracy should be stamped out because effective anti-piracy measures by Microsoft will increase Linux and FOSS adoption.
So there we have it - confirmation that Linux's "target market " is pirates, thieves, those who have been caught and those who are afraid they might be.
What a ridiculous comment
I agree, your comment is ridiculous.
Linux doesn't have a target "market" because it's not a product that's for sale.
The more people that use Linux/FOSS the better as far as I'm concerned.
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Isn't one of the sad facts that the growth of the internet was initially down to people sharing, often illegally, various wares of a dubious nature?
However I too applaud the crack down on piracy as the internet has now grown large enough to be able to do with out that initial stimulus of access to nefarious goods.
That will leave room for the legitimate uses which have grown up in the wake of the earlier activity to flourish.
Mad Malc
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