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Re: [LUG] Movie pirate forced to use Windows

 

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

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