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Taiwan Group Responsible For 90% of MSFT Piracy
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese man was the source of almost all high-quality pirated copies of its software up until his arrest in 2004. The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology. Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates. who were all recently sentenced to jail time, had been responsible for the 'production and distribution of more than 90 percent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world.'"
Why don't you refuse to buy the crap?
It never seemed to me that you were *forced* to walk into a store and buy Microsoft products.s
Either that, or at least have a chance to mark a Trollpost or to mark the user as a Troll-generator.
/.'s long-standing practice of being "fair and balanced".
Of course, that would go against the grain of
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