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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Dark_Me on 2 January 2006, 02:49

Title: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: Dark_Me on 2 January 2006, 02:49

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/ (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/)
This is just stupid, they have utterly no case. Why do they persist in making idiots of themselves?

Title: Re: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: Annorax on 2 January 2006, 02:53

This is old news. Still funny, though.

Title: Re: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: WMD on 2 January 2006, 04:17

Your sig is particuarly fitting for the thread. :D

Title: Re: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: Dark_Me on 2 January 2006, 06:53

The living under the rock bit or the quote?

Title: Re: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: adiment on 2 January 2006, 11:59

Monday, January 19, 2004 Posted: 11:34 PM EST (0434 GMT)

that's when we saw it :)

Title: Re: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: Refalm on 2 January 2006, 15:47

This was actually a marketing stunt by Microsoft to show the world that they where of good will by giving the teen a free Xbox.

Title: Re: Microsoft sues teen for copyright infringement
Post by: psyjax on 3 January 2006, 06:53

Quote from: Refalm

This was actually a marketing stunt by Microsoft to show the world that they where of good will by giving the teen a free Xbox.

Is that what happened at the end? Still, just goes to show that M$ is nothing but a bunch of asshats as ever. Nice to know google is proving to be a brain drain on them (what brains they had to begin with).