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. bumped a prior post thinking, perhaps, it meant something more than it
did:
Sunny wrote:
> > "MEB" <MEB-nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:eg%231Ma%23OKHA.4700@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> >> Sunny wrote:
>>> >>> "MEB" <MEB-nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> >>> news:OlzAU24OKHA.4692@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> >>>> . wrote:
>>>>> >>>>> "MEB" <MEB-nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> >>>>> news:#ND$wJ0OKHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> <Big-snip>
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> Take a chill-pill, billy-brown-noser.
>>>> >>>> HAHAHA, so now we have the normal completely ignorant USENUTTER
>>>> >>>> posting... how cute, does your mommy know your using the computer
>>>> >>>> again?
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> I could care less what Microsoft wants you idiot... I CARE
that some
>>>> >>>> person WILL get prosecuted BECAUSE that's IS the Law, and a
CRIMINAL
>>>> >>>> act...
>>> >>> Another example of your arrogance, that just because a person
accesses
>>> >>> a
>>> >>> news group through Usenet (normal procedure) you classify them as
>>> >>> beneath
>>> >>> you.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> FWIW here in Australia there are ads in every daily newspaper
"Ex Govt.
>>> >>> computers for sale, complete with Operating System and Internet
>>> >>> access".
>>> >>> (I know two people who have bought them and no "activation has been
>>> >>> required, and their OS has not been "disabled".
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Get out into the real World, for instance in most stores in
Malaysia
>>> >>> and
>>> >>> Singapore OEM CDs are on display for sale without any hardware
purchase
>>> >>> required. (and this in a Country that Microsoft has a large
assembly
>>> >>> plant
>>> >>> that supplies Microsoft products to South East Asia)
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>> >> AHHH, Sunny, why don't ONE of you actually look at those search and
>> >> links provided THEN come back and TRY to continue as you are...
>> >> might want to check those prosecutions around the world...
> >
> > I have "looked at" dozens of "prosecutions around the world" and the
vast
> > majority are against organised piracy groups that sell there stuff as
> > "genuine".
> >
> > Prosecutions against individual users are a different story, and the
> > majority have been thrown out of court.
> >
> > I attended a Microsoft seminar and product display in Singapore, and
even
> > there a couple of attendants were surprised that I intended to buy a
> > retail copy of WinXP, and hinted that far cheaper alternatives were
> > readily available.
> >
> >

 Yep, just as the music CIVIL prosecutions make the news, so do the
MAJOR criminal prosecutions. Sorry doesn't mean anything,, keep looking.

 So did you buy some of those illegal copies???

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