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Everything here is totally wrong. I am certainly not an anti-capitalist. Although I don't regard such a comment as a slur. I do think that creators should be

Everything here is totally wrong. I am certainly not an anti-capitalist. Although I don't regard such a comment as a slur. I do think that creators should be paid. I don't think that companies should slam arbitrary egregious charges on people -- and I know that courts don't always uphold these speculative invoices and indeed have been known to punish the people making the demand and their legal representation quite strongly. I do know that most people in the real world would find this utterly outrageous given that the student had the right to use the software in question in the setting in which it was detected. I personally would not do what he did -- all software that I use is either free (as in speech) or properly licensed. Oh and you are a copyright troll apologist.

sbuk 11y ago
The only thing that is wrong is the twisted interpretation the story! The charge isn't arbitrary! The student didn't have the right to use the software! It was only licensed to be used at CERN. HE downloaded it from an illegal site that provided a cracked version of the software on his own laptop so that HE could travel and not be at CERN, where he was entitled to use the software![0] He was even allowed to access the software using terminal services, but, in caps so it's easy for you to understand, CHOSE TO PIRATE THE SOFTWARE FOR HIS OWN CONVENIENCE!!! If you had read and understood the article, as you claim, you would know this. You even aknowledge that the software was improperly licensed!!! To your ad hominem, I will respond in kind; you are an idiot. [0] From the second paragraph of the fucking article: "But our student failed to download AllSIM from DFS onto his office PC, since that wasn’t where he wanted to use it. He wanted to install it on his laptop so that he could work on his simulation while travelling. However, the CERN AllSIM installation would not allow for this, as roaming usage is not covered by CERN's AllSIM licence. The student had a need and was not willing to compromise i.e. by using the Windows Terminal Service. Instead, he used Google and quickly found AllSIM for free on a dubious website. Three clicks later, he was ready to go."

sbuk 11y ago

The only thing that is wrong is the twisted interpretation the story! The charge isn't arbitrary! The student didn't have the right to use the software! It was only licensed to be used at CERN. HE downloaded it from an illegal site that provided a cracked version of the software on his own laptop so that HE could travel and not be at CERN, where he was entitled to use the software![0] He was even allowed to access the software using terminal services, but, in caps so it's easy for you to understand, CHOSE TO PIRATE THE SOFTWARE FOR HIS OWN CONVENIENCE!!! If you had read and understood the article, as you claim, you would know this. You even aknowledge that the software was improperly licensed!!! To your ad hominem, I will respond in kind; you are an idiot. [0] From the second paragraph of the fucking article: "But our student failed to download AllSIM from DFS onto his office PC, since that wasn’t where he wanted to use it. He wanted to install it on his laptop so that he could work on his simulation while travelling. However, the CERN AllSIM installation would not allow for this, as roaming usage is not covered by CERN's AllSIM licence. The student had a need and was not willing to compromise i.e. by using the Windows Terminal Service. Instead, he used Google and quickly found AllSIM for free on a dubious website. Three clicks later, he was ready to go."