[LINK] Microsoft points piracy finger at children

David Boxall david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Wed Jul 16 11:50:36 AEST 2008


Naughty children ... bad!

Seriously: it seems to me that, to the current generation, circumventing 
artificial encumbrances is just part of the use of a purchase.  Buy, 
crack, use as you like.

IP totalitarianism has succeeded in making the Inflated Privileges 
irrelevant.

<http://www.itnews.com.au/News/80466,microsoft-points-piracy-finger-at-children.aspx>
"New research released by Microsoft today suggests that the UK is a 
nation of unrepentant pirates, who know what they are doing is wrong but 
just do not care."

I reckon "know what they are doing is wrong" is inaccurate.  The law is 
regarded as wrong, not the behaviour.  There's knowledge of illegality, 
but the law's considered a quaint anachronism.

-- 
David Boxall                    |  Dogs look up to us
                                 |  And cats look down on us
                                 |  But pigs treat us as equals
                                                   --Winston Churchill



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