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Microsoft Launches Comical Effort to Fight Piracy
theodp writes "A week before the release of Vista, Microsoft is expanding its fight against software piracy with a new educational effort that includes comics. Making its U.S. debut Monday, the Genuine Fact Files campaign aims to make Microsoft's message more accessible to a broader audience. BTW, Vista's Software Protection Platform (SPP) can put unvalidated copies of the software into a reduced-functionality mode. From the article: 'Microsoft plans to draw attention to it through banner ads on its Web sites and promotional material that it will hand out through partners. By using comics, the company aims to make the message more accessible to a broader audience. They are black and white, in a style similar to newspaper comics.'"
But are they black and white like newspaper comics?
Vista's Software Protection Platform (SPP) can put unvalidated copies of the software into a reduced-functionality mode
So you can avoid bloat and annoying requesters by not validating a copy?
Awesome! I can see it now. Popeye eating some spinach and tying an octopus' legs around three unshaven guys with eye patches. Brilliant!
Oh, wait... did the OP mean copyright infringement? Then why did the OP use a term that means armed taking of actual property?
I agree with Microsoft's campaign here. Piracy is rampant with kids nowadays, and they should be educated that downloading or illegaly copying software is wrong, and deprives hard working people of money that they should have been theirs.
I understand slashdot tolerates and even condones piracy, but it is illegal and kids should know they risk the punishment of law enforcement if they get caught.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=483760909
OMG LOLZ! cOMICZ ... FREAKIN AWeSOME NOW I FINALLY REALIZE i MUST PAY FOR mY SOFTWARE, OMG LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!111111
Easy enough mistake to make.
I don't see how he changed anything.
Well, they're changing the site around, but [URL=http://www.midtimod.dk/blog/index.php?/archiv es/594-Captain-Copyright.html]this site[/URL] has one of the comics up.
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I noticed in the Wikipedia article that Jack Chick is part of the King-James-Only Movement. I agree with them since everyone knows that the KJV is the bible translation that Jesus used.
In this episode, Copyright Man puts the hurts on a little girl with leukemia, her puppy and her elderly Grandmother...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
We're not; you are though. The SunRay server software has a "WanRay" component which allows you to use a SunRay over a WAN; there are even WLAN-capable laptop form-factor SunRay devices from Tadpole. This means that you could have a SunRay at home and at work (or just take one with you) and wherever you are, your desktop state is retained at the server and available when you stick the smartcard in the front. I used to run SunRays in a physics lab, the only real problem in that setting was with sharing resources between users, but I think that the processor set interface which Solaris now has would obviate that.
A portable desktop in a "laptop form-factor device"? Sounds intriguing...I think you may be on to something.
omg I gotta see these comix. anybody have a torrent?
*glares at his obviously defective coffee*
Why, right you are. And now, back to our previously-scheduled Monday wake-up session...
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.