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Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day
arcticstoat points out an article at Custom PC, according to which: "Microsoft has announced that today is Global Anti-Piracy Day. Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy. ... As well as educating people about piracy, Microsoft has also initiated a huge list of legal proceedings that it's taking out against pirates. Microsoft isn't messing about when it says 'global' either. The list of 49 countries that Microsoft is targeting spans six continents, and ranges from the UK and the US all the way through to Chile, Egypt, Kuwait, Indonesia and China." Interestingly enough, unauthorized copies of Vista might not be harming the company all that much: reader twitter was among several to contribute links to a related story at Computer World which highlights Microsoft attorney Bonnie MacNaughton's acknowledgement that pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista and Office 2003 over 2007.
Fixed that for you...
If it weren't for piracy, there'd be a sizable amount of people that would never even try Vista.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
Arrgg!
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Does that make it "Talk Like an Anti-Pirate Day?"
I'm declaring today "Anti Microsoft Day." There. We're even.
I pledge I will not pirate anything... today
Know my favorite part of Anti-Piracy Days? The parades. I mean, the parties are nice, and seeing the kids put out the Anti-Piracy decorations, but the parades are what are really great.
See, since pirates prefer these older programs, it means that the anti-piracy measures really ARE working, because the pirates don't like dealing with it! We told you so!
Expect global warming rate to accelerate.
Prevent Windows piracy: Use Linux instead!
Prevent Windows piracy. Use Linux instead.
After the success of last month's "Talk Like A Pirate Day", this is just Microsoft just trying to cash in on the whole pirate thing.
Parents can't be expected to shell out for every single pirate related holiday. Enough is enough.
Anyway, don't Microsoft already have April 1st.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
...that I will not pirate Vista. Ever.
Sadly, all the ships run Vista and will subsequently BSOD at the worst of times, or the best of times if you love watching M$ phail.
Should read:
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Why not? You can do that, too. Just stroll around and tell everybody you meet that today's...
- "Think of the children"-day,
- "Bad car analogy"-day,
- "Robotic overlord"-day,
- "Natalie Portman"-day,
- "In Soviet russia"-day,
- "Insensitive clod"-day,
- "Goatse"-day,
etc...
The fact that nobody'll listen to you will just make you feel like MS today. But if they don't care - why should you?
I call today "Tuesday"
--I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
Shouldn't "global anti-piracy day" be called "global ninja domination day" instead?
Putting "Bill Gates" in the name field here returns "Smugglin' Hubert Cutler" as the result, appropriately enough... :) Even better, though, "Steve Ballmer" becomes "Sea Monkey Baird"!
;)
Sea Monkey! lol
Hey! Is that a flying chai.. OOF...
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
In contrast, the rest of the world celebrates the remaining 364 piracy days.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
Are they actively persuing pirates in Antarctica too? I thought the penguins ran linux
(and I am sure the government research stations at the south pole all have licensed copies of Windows and Office)
I think you got it wrong. They're talking about the idea of privateering. They're opposed to hiring pirates as mercenaries to fight other countries by proxy. I, for one, am glad to see Microsoft take a stand on this serious issue! In fact, I'm going to go give out duplicated copies of Windows XP to all my friends to show my support!
You've got that wrong.
Clearly what's happening is that they made the DRM so good that it's reducing piracy. Right?
REDMOND, Indian Ocean, Monday - Microsoft has announced that today is "Global Anti-Piracy Day," with the aim to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation caused by robbery and murder on the high seas.
"Robbery, rape and brutal murder on the high seas is just like people copying that floppy," sobbed billionaire Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "You wouldn't steal a patented software process, why would you steal a cargo ship?"
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has made these the most dangerous waters for software development in the world. The pirates use hacked zombie PCs, sometimes impounding codebases and programming staff at the point of their Heckler & Koch MP3s and demanding warez before they are released.
A famous attack late last year against one luxury system was foiled when the crew scared the pirates off with the Righteous Mathematical Stentor, an ear-splitting acoustic device developed in Massachusetts as a "non-lethal" free software advocacy weapon.
Somali clan leaders have agreed to end over two decades of Unix wars in the country and have made attempts to address the piracy problem. But the tremendous lawlessness off the long eastern Somali coastline reflects the difficulty of controlling the flow of information on the Internet.
In one breakthrough, pirate chiefs have resolved that they will never pirate Windows Vista or Office 2007. "Not even with your dick."
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