Movie Pirate forced to ditch Linux
by Mez on Aug.25, 2007, under Geeky
I just found this on the register.
While I agree that the punishment is fair, it just shows how nowadays it seems too many people are unaware of the impact of Free Software in today’s community.
To be fair, I’d rather be offline than be forced to buy/use windows on a permanent basis. Espescially seeing as having to get used to a whole new system would be hell for me.
Though, he could always wait for KDE4 to be Windows Compatible and fully released and run that 
August 25th, 2007 on 7:59 pm
I Just Saw this on Digg last night. But don’t you think he could just run the monitoring software in WINE? lol
August 26th, 2007 on 10:15 am
Sure, but if he used linux, he could easily turn the software off. Linux gives you control, Windows lets you control everything someone else doesn’t care about. sort off.
August 27th, 2007 on 9:47 pm
What I don’t understand is that someone who was clearly incompetent decided to buy monitoring software that runs on the (supposed to be) monitored operating system. It doesn’t matter whether it’s running on Windows or Linux, this means that if you really want, you can easily circumvent.
They should use a sealed(!) hardware device for this…