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But it sure as shit might stop the next guy if all his friends keep getting put in jail, something very rare in white collar crime. If I were Microsoft or any

by aje403 8y ago

But it sure as shit might stop the next guy if all his friends keep getting put in jail, something very rare in white collar crime. If I were Microsoft or any business needing to protect my IP rights, I would not care about a small reparation, I would care about it not having to go to court every 5 minutes because everyone and their mom is printing off fake CDs because it's not getting adequately deterred by the justice system. Seriously, if you want to bitch about our justice system or even our copyright laws you have WAY WAY lower hanging fruit than this to base a coherent argument around Nvm: re-read your posts, Windows should not have a copyright on these disks, I do not exist in the same universe as you

syshum 8y ago
>>If I were Microsoft or any business needing to protect my IP rights And this is the main disconnect, I do not accept the concept of "intellectual property" or believe it is a right. Microsoft should not be given a "right" by the government to control in what order I instruct my hard drive or cd burner to arrange a series of 1's and 0's. Doing so is an actual violation of my physical property rights as the owner of said hard drive
- aje403 8y ago
  Let's make it clear that Microsoft has rights on Windows, their brand and suite of products, not operating systems in general. The problem comes from when a malicious 3rd party explicitly paints Windows on the disc full of 0s and 1s to fool the consumer deliberately into believing its a genuine product. Microsoft not only loses revenue but it assumes brand liability You did not invent a single thing you are using right now and the delusional dream world with no ip in which people like you wish to exist, a hard drive was never invented in the first place. If you want to argue some of them need to be reformed, sure, that's obvious to everyone who reads the news once in awhile, but everything else indicates you are the originally intended reason for why the electoral college exists
  - dang 8y ago
    You've repeatedly posted uncivil and unsubstantive comments, engaged in flamewars, and now crossed into personal attack. We've already had to warn you repeatedly about this. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban you, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing these things on HN?
    - aje403 8y ago
      Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries

by aje403 8y ago

syshum 8y ago

>>If I were Microsoft or any business needing to protect my IP rights And this is the main disconnect, I do not accept the concept of "intellectual property" or believe it is a right. Microsoft should not be given a "right" by the government to control in what order I instruct my hard drive or cd burner to arrange a series of 1's and 0's. Doing so is an actual violation of my physical property rights as the owner of said hard drive

aje403 8y ago
Let's make it clear that Microsoft has rights on Windows, their brand and suite of products, not operating systems in general. The problem comes from when a malicious 3rd party explicitly paints Windows on the disc full of 0s and 1s to fool the consumer deliberately into believing its a genuine product. Microsoft not only loses revenue but it assumes brand liability You did not invent a single thing you are using right now and the delusional dream world with no ip in which people like you wish to exist, a hard drive was never invented in the first place. If you want to argue some of them need to be reformed, sure, that's obvious to everyone who reads the news once in awhile, but everything else indicates you are the originally intended reason for why the electoral college exists
- dang 8y ago
  You've repeatedly posted uncivil and unsubstantive comments, engaged in flamewars, and now crossed into personal attack. We've already had to warn you repeatedly about this. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban you, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing these things on HN?
  - aje403 8y ago
    Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries