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Re: [LUG] "Bloody' Microsoft

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Subject: Re: [LUG] "Bloody' Microsoft
From: "Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:33:27 +0100

On 24/10/2007, Michael Mortimore <nospamformike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're going to pirate windoze you might as well do it properly and
download a copy that doesn't need activation.

Incidently, pirating software is not theft. The fact that you have it
doesn't deprive anybody else of it.

Neither is it, in fact, called piracy. The term is copyright infringement; "piracy" is an Industry[1] Buzzword (tm).

[1] The customer-suing industry is thriving atm

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