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Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ready-aim-fire dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PC Advisor reports that Microsoft is going to start getting tough with certain small business customers. They are going to examine their small customer license database — any discrepancies and it will call you for an audit. If you refuse it will send in the BSA and the legal heavies. "

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  1. Re:Back in my day... by CRCulver · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Silly Slashdot poster, everyone knows that organized crime statutes are really meant for things like jailing peaceful abortion protestors for years.

    It's a real shame what the U.S. has come to these days.

  2. Re:BSA? by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BSA = Business Software Alliance

    That said, there's got to be a joke in there somewhere about getting tied up in knots...

  3. Re:Back in my day... by soft_guy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Silly Slashdot poster, everyone knows that organized crime statutes are really meant for things like jailing peaceful abortion protestors for years. LIke the ones that shoot doctors?

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  4. Re:Back in my day... by CRCulver · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haven't you heard of Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., the case where RICO was cited against folks who just hold up a picket sign outside of a clinic? People who commit murder are justly tried under laws against murder, but RICO was not meant to be used for harassing people banding together for a controversial but entirely non-violent protest.

  5. Re:Dealing with the BSA by itwerx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Awk! Pieces of eight. Pieces of eight. Pieces of seven... ERROR: General Protection Fault. [Paroty Error.]

    ROFLMAO @ your sig. :)