2009/12/24 jtd <[email protected]>:
> On Thursday 24 December 2009 21:36:10 Praveen A wrote:
>> Exactly. If they wanted to stop this practice they could - they
>> don't even have to go and catch all the illegal copies, one or two
>> high profile raids would do.
>
> And you decide what they do with their stuff?. Neat.

There is a big if. I don't decide, I was just pointing out one possibility.

> As a principle of protest I would go all out and support some one who
> tells M$ that as a protest he is installing some M$ stuff and duke it
> out in the courts - Pirate Bay style.

Pirate Bay didn't do that. Users of the site did it and they did not
accept the copyright violation charges. They did not do anything as a
protest, but there is someone who is doing exactly like what you
suggest for DRM

http://torrentfreak.com/o-break-the-law-091203/

> I am ready to bet Rs.1000/- that none of the M$ pirate users will ever
> do that. Would be interesting to know if any of them ever bothered to
> read an EULA.

my contention was about using the language extremes that the likes of
Microsoft would like to use.

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