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So why not blame the "obnoxious people" in this case, too? It's like the patent system abusers (which perhaps not by coincidence, Microsoft is one, too) excuse:

So why not blame the "obnoxious people" in this case, too? It's like the patent system abusers (which perhaps not by coincidence, Microsoft is one, too) excuse: "don't hate the player, hate the game". Yeah, right. Nobody held a gun to their head to do this. It was a premeditated action by Microsoft.

ggchappell 12y ago
You are correct that Microsoft would deserve some of the blame, if there is to be blame. However, user pessimizer put it very well: > Microsoft has no obligation to you. Your judicial system does. In any case, there is no "hating the game" here. The fault -- if one has a problem with this action -- is not with "the system", but with a very specific player: the federal judge who issued the order. (I don't feel like going through the trouble of finding his/her name, but I doubt it would be difficult.)