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Pirate Banned From Using Linux
dsinc writes "A guy who uploaded the latest Star Wars movie got arrested, pleaded guilty to 'conspiracy to commit copyright infringement' and 'criminal copyright infringement' and got jail and home confinement. As part of his home confinement, he agreed to install some tracking software on his computer. The problem is He's an Ubuntu Linux user and the gov't doesn't have any tracking software for Linux. So he's been told that he must use Windows for the term of his confinement. Looks like a case of cruel and unusual punishment to me"
Come on you people, he got caught doing something illegal and now he is being punished. I don't think it's the FBI's responsibility to make sure that their monitoring software works on all platforms.
Get Over It!!!
Keep passing the open windows...
Apples and oranges. Aggressively prosecuting minor crimes like this is certainly a bad allocation of government resources. But that's a lot different from a massive invasion of privacy, affecting citizens who aren't even suspected of a crime.
Anyway, don't get bent out of shape. We've got surveillance cameras in this country too, and people are just as up in arms about them as we are about yours. More so: nobody here honestly cares whether the UK goes fascist.
The burden of proof was on the prosectors to show that the defendant had committed the crime (not that he had caused great harm). He was found guilty, then he was sentenced based on the actual harm done, hence the small 10 month sentence (only 5 of which were behind bars).
Perhaps we should have sentenced him to house arrest with free strippers. Would that be more fitting to the crime?
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Do you care to elaborate on which basic facts that I have changed? Or would you rather make hyped-up allegations?
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He pled guilty... He threw himself at the mercy of the court, the court gave him 5 months jail, 5 months probation. He knew (or his lawyer knew) that the state determines the conditions of his probation... If he did not like that possibility he should have fought the charges.
Quantifiable numbers do not exist for every possible situation, therefore it is within the courts power to determine it on a case by case basis. If they did not do it in this situation then he should move for a mistrail.
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1) He IS a criminal, he admitted it, he was found guilty.
2) I compared him to other criminals http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/criminal. The crime does not matter they still share the commonality of all being criminals.
3) Making a comparision is NOT ignoring the facts (or as you stated in your previous post "changing the facts" http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=278075&
4) You have still not outlined one fact that I have changed.
For the record he did break the law, he was caught, he was tried, and he was sentenced... The end.
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You can buy a computer that came with ME and actually worked. It's not like Vista has better device support yet. My mom ran ME for six years, but Dell has been unable to wrangle Vista.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I would say that misquoting someone in this fashion can be considered to be a form of Straw Man fallacy. No matter how innocent it may seem that's no way to have a proper discussion.
Yeah, yeah, stick up my butt and all. Being funny on Slashdot is like shooting fish in a barrel, it's not even a contest. Say something off-color and you'll be at +5 Funny in moments. I usually shoot for a real, compelling, and spirited discussion because that's a far more interesting way to spend your time here.
Sapere aude!
By `indirect' I mean things like not being able to get a good job, being shunned/tormented/killed by people merely because you're a registered sex offender, etc.
Who, outside a big dumb company is going to shun someone for having shared a movie? The punishment is harsh because it does not represent community outrage, it represents the will of the movie industry. There are a bunch of trolls spewing bullshit about what a bad man this guy is, but how many copyright warriors are really out there?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I do dislike liberals. I dislike their atheism, their whinyness, their eagerness to get their hands on my money, their social programs, their hatred of the military, their celebrities, their expensive food tastes, and their unwashed hair.
They're just not Americans in my opinion. More like French or something vaguely European.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
If you're so smart, then why do we unsophisticated, unschooled, unthoughtful conservatives consistently beat the pants off you in elections? Sure, you're going to win this one. But check back to 1968 and your record doesn't look so good.
No matter how many dictionary definitions you can quote, it still doesn't change the fact that you libs just want to raise taxes and give the money to welfare queens. Think hard about that one.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan