Microsoft Applauds Strong Piracy Conviction

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Microsoft applauded a federal court's decision Thursday to jail a man convicted of hawking faked certificates of authenticity for the company's software. Judge Orinda D. Evans of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia sentenced Justin Harrison to 46 months in prison for his participation in the crime ring. Harrison ran Sales International, which participated in the trafficking of the certificates.

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[Nocutius]

Ok, he was making money off of it so he deserves it, but Microsoft applauding it is a bit hypocritical, considering that mr. Gates himself supposedly admitted that piracy helps the spread of their OS (i think he was talking about china).

[Schwarz]

I see nothing wrong with using a fake account of windows.
Selling them though is ripping people off.