Comments on: Court Orders Pirate to Use Windows

By: matt

matt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:11:02 +0000

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.

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:49:33 +0000

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?

By: t d

t d — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:00:12 +0000

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

By: Tech^CF

Tech^CF — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:16:18 +0000

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)

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:09:38 +0000

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!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:49:55 +0000

That’s cruel and unusual punishment.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:01:53 +0000

@SHIFTLOCKED

haha I was thinking the same thing, … sounds like a problem that a little VMware could fix ;)

By: Damian

Damian — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:16:04 +0000

Surely they should do this at ISP level!

By: Shiftlocked

Shiftlocked — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:57:37 +0000

use windows and then install a virtualisation on there :D

By: AlliXSenoS

AlliXSenoS — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:18:08 +0000

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?