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think, people...
OK, the software industry is not hurting because they build the costs of piracy into the price of the software. Employees get paid, Adobe and Microsoft are making handsome profits, so who really loses because of piracy? Buyers. Products are priced based on how many units are actually sold, not used. Any money collected from cases like this ought to be rebated to customers who paid based on the anticipated losses associated with piracy. Based on this, software makers have made their own reparations. No need to pay back Microsoft for what is already built into it's price structure. It would be like paying them twice for the same work.

They're always telling us "theft hurts consumers" so we paying customers would therefore also deserve the reparations if a thief gives back what was lost.

As for the sentence, he and Ken Lay could've been roommates -- they're both con-men. What's good for the goose...
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The fine should be $100 MILLION  BeGoneFool | 09/10/06
$100 million? Ha.  Cayble | 09/10/06
I think 7 years is to long  Edward Meyers | 09/10/06
15 years on a labor gang sound right.  osreinstall | 09/11/06
Crime does pay  mypl8s4u2 | 09/11/06
Prison  Sp00kE | 09/13/06
Re: $100 million? Ha.  mKind | 09/10/06
I'd think the 7 years might do something  voska | 09/11/06
$100 Million.....  waynef | 09/11/06
Seven years is too much  buran | 09/10/06
Who say they will release a violent criminal?  voska | 09/11/06
No reason for prison in this case  Leria | 09/11/06
Yet, a quick bullet would be better.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/11/06
you're going for execution over pirated software?  shraven | 09/11/06
Have to agree  chaserblue | 09/11/06
Shoot them too  mypl8s4u2 | 09/11/06
I'm sorry but you're a retard.  LeeC | 09/11/06
Oh Gee, looky here!  mypl8s4u2 | 09/11/06
Welcome to America  chuckgosh@... | 09/12/06
I agree, 7 years is WAY to much time.  Teri1957 | 09/11/06
and WGA was what?  mypl8s4u2 | 09/11/06
Get Real. Sentence is Way Overdone.  savatar | 09/10/06
And so ... being illegal creates legality????  houchens | 09/11/06
I find that hard to believe...  dav1dsm1th | 09/12/06
Update  dav1dsm1th | 09/12/06
Let's see....  mypl8s4u2 | 09/11/06
Seven years is a very long time  Leria | 09/11/06
think, people...  ubrmonkeyy@... | 09/10/06
or better yet, pay to the government  Feldon | 09/10/06
or better yet, pay to the government  Henrik Moller | 09/10/06
And where I live...  slopoke | 09/11/06
pay to the government  bgonetoo | 09/10/06
WHy? It wasn't the government he stole from  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/11/06
Give it to Companies?  jrhcod | 09/11/06
That's BS  voska | 09/11/06
RE: "think, people..."  ajapierce | 09/10/06
Not quite  voska | 09/11/06
Good GAWD man, we aren't all Microsoft  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/11/06
Whiter than white? No!!  LeeC | 09/11/06
I didn't read that in the article, though  John Zern | 09/11/06
nor can you afford to prosecute...  zoroaster | 09/12/06
Thats only partly true...  doas777 | 09/12/06
How About Fines For Non-Working Buggy Software  jrhcod | 09/11/06
Or At Least  BlackDiamond | 09/11/06
It Hurts  lmenningen | 09/12/06
Maybe he should copy Kenneth Lay  bathswife | 09/11/06
OMG, what a stupid inane comparison!  HypnoToad | 09/11/06
OMG, what a stupid inane comparison  bbwalters@... | 09/11/06
7 years?  jrhcod | 09/11/06
Not quite  voska | 09/11/06
HMM  jphines79 | 09/11/06
Not so absurd  voska | 09/11/06
Who's wrong?  ninja@... | 09/11/06
if buggy software got fined  masterxtds | 09/11/06
Microcr*p  craptacular@... | 09/12/06
That's Not Reality  lmenningen | 09/12/06
Yeeha! Let's hang 'um!  zoroaster | 09/11/06
Business Software Alliance???  craptacular@... | 09/12/06
We're Late Too  lmenningen | 09/12/06
Evils of consumer culture  RogerButt | 09/24/08

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