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 obligati

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.)