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China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the imagine-what-they-do-if-you-make-a-silly-face dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Chinese court has jailed four people for spreading their bootleg 'Tomato Garden' version of Microsoft's Windows XP program, in what the Xinhua news agency called the nation's biggest software piracy case. One of the four men Hong Lei, the creator of the downloadable 'Tomato Garden Windows XP' software, was jailed for three and a half years by a court in Suzhou in eastern China, Xinhua."

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  1. Re:Big nothing. by cheftw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod parent +1 Insightfunny?

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  2. Re:Business feasibility by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So great it is, living as a tax-paying, insurance-card-holding American, that I must contemplate having these things looked at before actually doing it. Yeah.

    You can't be serious. Of course you need to think about it. Everything in life is a trade-off. Do you really yearn so much for the nanny-state that you actually believe that weighing the consequences of your decisions is something that you should not have to do? That there could ever exist a world in which that was really the case?

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