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Re: [LUG] Movie pirate forced to use Windows

 

On Friday 24 August 2007 21:35, Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:13:08PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> > I'm surprised that the monitoring isn't rather more vendor neutral,
> > either a choke point firewall, or video tape, or some such. I suspect
> > the court will get it's ear bashed by relevant commercial groups as well.
>
> It seems a little ridiculous that court-mandated software is so limited.
> What would happen if he used a non-x86 machine? Does he have to pay for
> the copy of Windows himself? Surely just requiring him to use Windows is
> punishment enough, never mind the monitoring software.
>
>       Ben
I just wonder who he'd sue when the monitoring software gets compromised and 
his machine turns into a bot!
Tom te tom te tom


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