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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.
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.
$diff terrorists hippies
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$rm -rf *terrorists *hippies