China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy

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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Pirate Microsoft Windows, go to jail

[SL Baur]

W00t! Throw away the key while you're at it, too.

I am willing to bet that everyone who mods me down has pirated Microsoft Windows. So many of the fan bois here claim to do it ...

Re:Because they're about to start writing software

[Stormwatch]

Intellectual Property and Copyright laws are becoming acceptable in most of the world

Weird, I thought people were finally realizing that this "intellectual property" thing is a massive scam.

Re:srsly

[cliffski]

no it doesn't.
downloading and sharing pirated music, then getting caught, destroying the hard drive to cover your tracks, repeatedly lying in court, changing your story several times and forgoing about a dozen offers to settle out of court when you are clearly 100% no argument totally and utterly guilty and caught red-handed gets you that.

Most people who get caught breaching copyright law have the minimal number of brain cells needed to admit guilt and pay a relatively small fine. Lets not act as cheerleaders for dumbasses who think they can wriggle out of it.