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MEB wrote pursuant to a bump from ."?"@m$.com on 09/25/09 of an old
message to which previous responses had been placed:
> .. bumped a prior post thinking, perhaps, it meant something more than it
> did:
> Sunny wrote:
>>> "MEB" <MEB-nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eg%231Ma%23OKHA.4700@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Sunny wrote:
>>>>>>> "MEB" <MEB-nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:OlzAU24OKHA.4692@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>>>> . wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> "MEB" <MEB-nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>> news:#ND$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???
> 

 Since ."?"@m$.com apparently wishes to extend the usage of illegal
software into other forums in Australia, perhaps a specific search might
be in order to provide more wood to the fire:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Australian+software+piracy+laws

 It should be noted, of course, that this party also uses the standard
"anonymous" news posting to attempt to hide their identity and activities...

 Moreover, it should be further noted that the discussion proceeded into
another instituted by 98 Guy "MS WIN-98 SE (End User License Agreement)
Part 1 of 2" in microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, in which the
actual OEM "general usage" licensing was placed and discussed, including
further discussion regarding bulk and special "seat" and related
licensing and disposal agreements [pursuant this segment of the long
discussion of legal and illegal usage and factors which apply] were also
extended.

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