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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"
Randy: [walks up] What are you doing? ...Are those good moral values?
Sharon: I'm watching one of Stanley's Chinpokomon video tapes.
Randy: Why?
Sharon: Our son loves this show, Randy, so I think it's important that we watch it to see if it's teaching him good moral values. [Randy sits]
"Ash": [addressing a robot rooster] Hey, you must be Roostor! I haven't bought one of you yet, but I'll bet you can transform into Roostallion if you found Diamond Skill 7! [picks it up and squeezes]
Roostor: Roo-oo-oostor! [a teen boy in black body suit emblazoned with an 8 appear]
"Eight": [does the following as he speaks] Hey, I'm gonna take your Roostor and put it in this bag, where it will flourish or expire, depending on fate!
"Ash": Hey! Is that a good idea?
"Eight": Roostors aren't like Chuchunezumis. They haven't the heart for such endeavors.
"Ash": Oooh? [Randy and Sharon look lost]
Randy:
Sharon: I don't know what the hell they're talking about.
[The Marsh house, later. Randy and Sharon watch a battle scene in disbelief]
"Ash": Lambtron! You are losing the battle of your life! [Lambtron battles Furrycat]
Narrator: But Lambtron's powers also give him a good chance for a new fight. Will he succeed?
"Ash": I am sad now, because Lambtron must be very lonely because there are so few Lambtrons in the world. Will he ever find a companion?
Sharon: This doesn't make sense. Are those stupid things supposed to be animals or robots or what?!
Randy: I don't know, but I suddenly kinda wanna own them all.
Sharon: Randy, we can't allow our son to watch this stuff!
Randy: Well, it's not like it's vulgar or violent.
Sharon: No, but it's incredibly stupid, and that could be worse on a child's mind than any vulgarity or violence. Remember what "Battle Of The Network Stars" did to an entire generation.
Randy: [solemnly] My God, you're right.
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 fact is he committed a crime... You don't like it start holding your legislators accountable. Any government should not choose which laws it chooses to enforce, they are either on the books or not... Besides I think 10 months of total time served is not a huge amount considering the financial impact that he had...
Besides if someone stole your shit would you expect the cops to prosecute him if he/she was caught. It really shouldn't matter to you because you were only out money.
Lets just not prosecute anyone for anything unless it is shooting someone in the face or worse.
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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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Drunk drivers have the ABILITY to kill families of 4, but who doesn't have that ability sober? Anyone in a car could kill anyone else around them. Punishing someone for BEING ABLE to do something is crap, and all the drunk driving laws are total garbage.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
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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man, what a faggot, he uses linux and likes star wars? wtf? must be sucking some serious dick over there.
fucking queer bitches.
darth vader fans dream of taking cock up the ass from men in leather. fucking homos make me sick.
if you're a homo just go and fucking throw yourself in a lake. filthy fucking faggots.
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.
he thinks changing Operating System needs more of a life restructuring. Perhaps, this sentence will give him the perfect opportunity to finally find a life outside of his linux box.
It's going to be easier for him to avoid the internet all together for the five month period than to try to make Winblows understand all of his bookmarks, contacts and other goodies. His complaint is that it's already going to be hard for him to get work but depriving him of the tools of his trade will make it impossible.
I think he should make the most of his new found infamy and make a blog like "Supersize me," the movie where an ultra healthy vegetarian ruins his health in a month by eating McDonald's. I can see it now: not just Windoze, but only the biggest and baddest crap M$ autopushes and sells! Nothing else, he can't leave the start menu or install any thing but M$ software. After just a few weeks his computer is bloated and he's getting sick of the single screen interface. He can do interviews with M$ Freaks, who somehow survive using nothing but Win3.1. Other people can monitor the health of his computer and network activity and be amazed at how bad things really are. When it's all over, we can hear about his ruined credit record and other horrors.
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