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Steffi Graf Wins Case Vs. Microsoft
scaramush writes: "The AP is reporting that Steffi Graf has won her lawsuit against Microsoft for hosting nude doctored photos of her. Although Microsoft had removed the images when they appeared in June, MS declined to sign a formal agreement that they would not appear again. This is the second loss for MS in this case. Scary precedent."
When do we get to see doctored nude photos of Bill Gates...
...never mind
(shudder)
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Don't know what to think... Microsoft evil... yet... Microsoft right... too much... head pain...
*POP*
Its good to see the MSFT is further branching out its operations to soft pornography...
Dazed and confused Slashdot readers everywhere were found siding with Microsoft today...
You must acquit!
Strom Thurmond; the dean of the US Senate...
the deadest fart on slashdot.
Microsoft has a weak backhand.
Okay, who was the wise guy who posted this under "The Courts"? Ha ha.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Bea Arthur is outraged that they put steffi graff's head on her body.
This is how you use this precedent to MAKE MONEY FAST from home, AND hurt big bad Microsoft to boot:
1. Find nudie pics on the internet. If you fail this, kill yourself immediately.
2. Put pictures of your own head on the naked bodies.
3. From an internet cafe, create an account with a fake name on Microsoft Germanies photo sharing/whatever site. Upload the pictures to this site.
4. Sue Microsoft Germany for posting fake nude images of you on the net. Tell them to sign a formal agreement that they will not appear again. If they won't, you get money. If they do sign, post the images again and sue them for breach of contact, and get money.
5. Repeat until rich.
Perhaps everyone should quickly upload as many doctored images of 'Nude Steffi' as they can to msn.
This would have the following effects:
1) Steffi would wish that she'd never have started down that legal road.
2) Microsoft would shit a few kittens.
3) The arising publicity would help to ensure that free speech is protected in the long run.
4) We'd all have a laugh at both Steffi's and Micro$oft's expense.
Actually, it's usually a lack of oxygen to the brain that kills people, usually precipitated by heart failure caused by the gaping wound in their chest from the bullet, fired by a gun, controlled by a man.
If you want to get pedantic about it of course.
Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, Microsoft would certainly want you to believe my client is wrong in suing them, and they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a poor, victimized woman and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must award my client lots of money.
I know it seems wrong. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a woman's dignity is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must find in our favor. Here look at the monkey , look at the silly monkey.
The defense rests.
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You mean that in the lawsuit sense, right? Not the "nude pictures of Steffi Graf" sense?
-schussat
The hour of noon has passed. Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
They made a GPL style license for photos :)
I stole this Sig