Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day 500
arcticstoat points out an article at Custom PC, according to which: "Microsoft has announced that today is Global Anti-Piracy Day. Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy. ... As well as educating people about piracy, Microsoft has also initiated a huge list of legal proceedings that it's taking out against pirates. Microsoft isn't messing about when it says 'global' either. The list of 49 countries that Microsoft is targeting spans six continents, and ranges from the UK and the US all the way through to Chile, Egypt, Kuwait, Indonesia and China." Interestingly enough, unauthorized copies of Vista might not be harming the company all that much: reader twitter was among several to contribute links to a related story at Computer World which highlights Microsoft attorney Bonnie MacNaughton's acknowledgement that pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista and Office 2003 over 2007.
Minor correction... (Score:4, Funny)
Fixed that for you...
If it weren't for piracy (Score:5, Funny)
If it weren't for piracy, there'd be a sizable amount of people that would never even try Vista.
Is it September 19th? (Score:3, Funny)
Arrgg!
RRRRrraaaaa (Score:5, Funny)
Does that make it "Talk Like an Anti-Pirate Day?"
and... (Score:5, Funny)
Working so far (for me). (Score:5, Funny)
I pledge I will not pirate anything... today
sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Anti-piracy works! (Score:2, Funny)
Flying Spaghetti Monster is not amused (Score:2, Funny)
Fighting software piracy? Excellent idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Prevent Windows piracy: Use Linux instead!
Re:RRRRrraaaaa (Score:4, Funny)
!!!!rrrray
Jumping on the Bandwagon (Score:5, Funny)
After the success of last month's "Talk Like A Pirate Day", this is just Microsoft just trying to cash in on the whole pirate thing.
Parents can't be expected to shell out for every single pirate related holiday. Enough is enough.
Anyway, don't Microsoft already have April 1st.
Re:If it weren't for piracy (Score:5, Funny)
I find it funny that Microsoft feel they have to educate people about piracy. I'm already well aware of the many benefits thank you, Microsoft.
I pledge... (Score:5, Funny)
...that I will not pirate Vista. Ever.
Re:Well, I'm glad to see Microsoft... (Score:1, Funny)
Sadly, all the ships run Vista and will subsequently BSOD at the worst of times, or the best of times if you love watching M$ phail.
Re:RRRRrraaaaa (Score:3, Funny)
FTFAFY (Score:4, Funny)
Should read:
Re:Can they do that? (Score:5, Funny)
- "Think of the children"-day,
- "Bad car analogy"-day,
- "Robotic overlord"-day,
- "Natalie Portman"-day,
- "In Soviet russia"-day,
- "Insensitive clod"-day,
- "Goatse"-day,
etc...
The fact that nobody'll listen to you will just make you feel like MS today. But if they don't care - why should you?
I hearby declare! (Score:2, Funny)
Arrrrrrrrr mateys! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RRRRrraaaaa (Score:3, Funny)
You should make an account, I was going to mod you up for that until I saw you were AC, but then, without an account, you won't be able to obsess over any replies you might get on your user page so you'll never see this reply anyways.
Bill Gate's Pirate Name (Score:5, Funny)
Putting "Bill Gates" in the name field here [gangstaname.com] returns "Smugglin' Hubert Cutler" as the result, appropriately enough... :) Even better, though, "Steve Ballmer" becomes "Sea Monkey Baird"!
;)
Sea Monkey! lol
Hey! Is that a flying chai.. OOF...
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Re:sweet (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah but today's parade are nothing compared to the old Anti-Piracy Day parades of the 1930s!
Only one day? (Score:5, Funny)
In contrast, the rest of the world celebrates the remaining 364 piracy days.
Re:Working so far (for me). (Score:5, Funny)
I pledge to pirate 3 times as much, to make up for you slackers.
Re:RRRRrraaaaa (Score:5, Funny)
If you knew who he was, he wouldn't be much of a ninja.
Re:sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, I hear the '30s are coming back into fashion. There's a buzz on Wall Street.
Six continents? (Score:3, Funny)
Are they actively persuing pirates in Antarctica too? I thought the penguins ran linux
(and I am sure the government research stations at the south pole all have licensed copies of Windows and Office)
Re:Minor correction... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, the irony.
Re:For once I agree with MS (Score:4, Funny)
I think you got it wrong. They're talking about the idea of privateering. They're opposed to hiring pirates as mercenaries to fight other countries by proxy. I, for one, am glad to see Microsoft take a stand on this serious issue! In fact, I'm going to go give out duplicated copies of Windows XP to all my friends to show my support!
Re:Minor correction... (Score:2, Funny)
Office 2007 spelling and grammar checker at work?
Re:If it weren't for piracy (Score:5, Funny)
I find it funny that Microsoft feel they have to educate people about piracy. I'm already well aware of the many benefits thank you, Microsoft.
Maybe this Microsoft's way of fighting global warming? By educating more pirates, we insure a healthy planet for our children's children.
Re:Even pirates don't want Vista (Score:5, Funny)
You've got that wrong.
Clearly what's happening is that they made the DRM so good that it's reducing piracy. Right?
Re:Is it September 19th? (Score:1, Funny)
Nawwww... Today would be "Talk like a lawyer" day.
Re:Minor correction... (Score:1, Funny)
Firstly they took the IE HTML engine out, and replaced it with the Word HTML rendering engine, which means the HTML support is now extremely crippled.
So in other words, nothing has changed?
Re:Minor correction... (Score:4, Funny)
What irony? This person is clearly a poster child for Office 2007 being easy to use.
Re:Minor correction... (Score:4, Funny)
It took me a few minutes to get used to a mouse back in the 80s, too; now that I know how to use one, it's intuitive.
On the internet, nobody know that you are a kitten.
Re:Minor correction... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm still using Office 97. I'm just a little bit behind in the times. (Or too cheap to lay-down $200 on a pointless upgrade.)
>>>Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day
Ironically, even as I read this article, I am downloading Stargate Atlantis season 4. What I've seen so far (401-410) was crap, so I'm glad I tried it before wasting money on the stupid DVD. I guess I'm not really feeling the "spirit" of this day.
Microsoft calls Global Anti-Piracy Day (Score:4, Funny)
REDMOND, Indian Ocean, Monday - Microsoft has announced that today is "Global Anti-Piracy Day," [today.com] with the aim to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation caused by robbery and murder on the high seas.
"Robbery, rape and brutal murder on the high seas is just like people copying that floppy," sobbed billionaire Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "You wouldn't steal a patented software process, why would you steal a cargo ship?"
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has made these the most dangerous waters for software development in the world. The pirates use hacked zombie PCs, sometimes impounding codebases and programming staff at the point of their Heckler & Koch MP3s and demanding warez before they are released.
A famous attack late last year against one luxury system was foiled when the crew scared the pirates off with the Righteous Mathematical Stentor, an ear-splitting acoustic device developed in Massachusetts as a "non-lethal" free software advocacy weapon.
Somali clan leaders have agreed to end over two decades of Unix wars in the country and have made attempts to address the piracy problem. But the tremendous lawlessness off the long eastern Somali coastline reflects the difficulty of controlling the flow of information on the Internet.
In one breakthrough, pirate chiefs have resolved that they will never pirate Windows Vista or Office 2007. "Not even with your dick."
Re:Is it September 19th? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Minor correction... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Minor correction... (Score:2, Funny)
OK, I thought menu system in Word processor is complicated, now the next thing is to simplify Notepad and Paint?
Come on, you are really pulling users legs.
Re:Even pirates don't want Vista (Score:3, Funny)
You owe me a new keyboard asshole! I just blasted coffee all over this one.
Re:Minor correction... (Score:3, Funny)
the ribbon is -dare I say it?- a clever and even innovative UI approach
Yep, I must admit I've never seen a better way to hide options behind obscure icons that are difficult to find because they're so poorly placed on the various bars. In fact I'd go as far as saying I don't think I could make a more confusing, childish, unintuitive and frustrating menuing system if i tried. Kudos to MS.
Re:Minor correction... (Score:4, Funny)
I've been putting Ubuntu on anyone's computer who asks me to "fix" it for quite some time now.
You must run into the occasional irate friend or family member, huh? "I wanted you to fix the margins on my word document you little shit--and here I come back an hour later and you've got this Ubuntu crap on my computer? How come I can't open my finances? Where's Microsoft Money? That's the last straw. I have no son!"