Someone should go and tell the artists that they dont need these greedy evil middlemen to sell their music nowadays. They can simply create their own portals. That should solve a lot of problems.
It looks like a joke, because one cant think of punishing someone just for bundling free s/w with the main product. But....
Those who know how difficult it is to remove MP and MSN messenger will agree with the judge. Last time when I tried to remove MP from a freshly installed win2k server ( as it was being used in a super secure app), the mplayer.exe file kept on regenerating, as if by magic. The messenger is also difficult to get rid of, especially for those who dont know regedit or cmd (covers 90% of win users).
Order to create links for other products looks even funnier, but I think its just to humiliate MS or to teach them a lesson. Clearly the judge treated MS as a naughty kid.
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I know a lot of people who watch pirated DVDs that have movies copied from VCDs or such and are very happy to see a "DVD quality" movie for less.
I also know many people happily hooked to their TVs showing a picture covered with 50% snow, black bars, wrong colors or flickers.
General public mostly wont complain about bad sound, badly adjusted contrast/color/brightness/badly tuned TVs etc etc .
People flaunt their shiny laptops with 4GHz chips, which run slighty faster than a snail.
So yes, feed a cow a choco cake or sweet grass, its the quantity that matters.
Because only 1 in 1000 die.
This is evolution....
You had your time....
THIS IS OUR TIME
Someone should go and tell the artists that they dont need these greedy evil middlemen to sell their music nowadays. They can simply create their own portals.
That should solve a lot of problems.
It looks like a joke, because one cant think of punishing someone just for bundling free s/w with the main product. But.... Those who know how difficult it is to remove MP and MSN messenger will agree with the judge. Last time when I tried to remove MP from a freshly installed win2k server ( as it was being used in a super secure app), the mplayer.exe file kept on regenerating, as if by magic. The messenger is also difficult to get rid of, especially for those who dont know regedit or cmd (covers 90% of win users). Order to create links for other products looks even funnier, but I think its just to humiliate MS or to teach them a lesson. Clearly the judge treated MS as a naughty kid.