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Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the off-the-hook dept.

Piracy Support Line writes "Russian principal Alexander Ponosov will not be visiting Siberia any time soon, at least not for the allegedly illegal Microsoft software that were preloaded on the computers they bought and Microsoft supported the reseller's story. Although Bill Gates rejected Mikhail Gorbachev's personal appeal for mercy on behalf of the teacher, the judge was kinder. Judge Elvira Mosheva decided to dismiss the case because 'Microsoft's financial damage is too insignificant for a criminal investigation.'"

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  1. Re:In the Meantime ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Those disks would just slow down their education even more and do no good for these kids in the future of business.

    Nice hobby though.

  2. Re:ramifications by Divebus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, how does it feel, Microsoft? Someone "innovates" a little of your "intellectual property" (stole it fair and square, actually) and the courts don't think it's worth prosecuting. "Ohhhh, no harm done..." Just a little tiny pin prick of what the rest of the planet's actual innovators have been putting up with from Microsoft (and the lenient courts) all these years.

    Yes, I'm a bitter little troll so blast me a new one.

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