Court Orders Pirate to Use Windows

August 24, 2007 by Dan in Stupid with 11 Comments

Scott McCausland was accused of and plead guilty to downloading Star Wars Episode III (Revenge of the Phantom Sith Enterprise Scotty?) and after serving five months in prison (Mind you Cocaine carrying Lohan got only hours) the court ordered that he must have monitoring software installed on his PC and that software is not compatible with Linux.

I had a meeting with my probation officer today and he told me that he has to install monitoring software onto my PC. No big deal to me; that is part of my sentence,” [Scott wrote].

“However, the [monitoring] software doesn’t support GNU/Linux. So he told me that if I want to use a computer, I would have to use an OS that the software can be installed on.

“Which basically means Microsoft and monitoring software or no computer. I use Ubuntu 7.04 now, and they are trying to force me to switch.”

Thats it, rack up another sale for Microsoft! I’m sorry, I’m not outraged that the court is forcing him to use Windows, rather that Scott had to serve FIVE MONTHS!

http://mavrev.com Matt

Antitrust?
AlliXSenoS

the question is, where do you draw the line?

if you say ok to the monitoring software, which he has, how far does the government have to go out of their way to accomodate his unusual choice of a workstation OS?

what about osx?

what about linux? which flavours are supported? how do you decide which are worth the trouble?

what about bsd? and the couple of different flavours of that?

what about solaris (that still exists, yes)… or… hp-ux… or qnx…

what if the guy was a complete masochist and used FreeDOS?
http://www.specialtech.co.uk Shiftlocked

use windows and then install a virtualisation on there :D
Damian

Surely they should do this at ISP level!
chad

@SHIFTLOCKED

haha I was thinking the same thing, … sounds like a problem that a little VMware could fix ;)
http://www.mcdevzone.com/ Mike

That’s cruel and unusual punishment.
Carlos

Fucking Lohan got hours? Goddamn fucking legal system my ass! I’m Colombian and the cocaine she was carrying was tainted with a lot of human blood. Fucking bitch should have paid a lot more time. Less demand, less supply, less dead people. How many people does a fucking download kill? oh, wait, I guess the question is how much money did Lucas lose from one fucking download? Ooooh poor guy, we should make everyone who downloads ilegally pay with their neck. Fuck!
Tech^CF

Is this a chance to get a free copy of Windows? Install it in a dualboot config (but then never use the Windows thingie, just keep it to make the police state zealots happy)
t d

DOWNLOADING? More like UPLOADING star wars!
This guy used to be the admin of EliteTorrents.
Roy

Hmm… why is it that being caught downloading Star Wars nets a 5 month prison term plus Net Nanny. Where as assault and battery gets a couple of days in jail?

Anyone?
http://scarform.com matt

what a load of horse shit.

of course, there is no hack proof monitoring system that can be installed on the user end of things – I’m sure he’ll find a way to get over this little retarded bump.

ridiculous.

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