Edde

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Microsoft: Teens don't understand intellectual property (Download Squad)

Feb 15th 2008 4:20PM That has nothing to do with not understanding copyright laws or intellectual property, that's more of a "I don't give a rats ### about stuff that belongs to someone else. If I like it, I'll take it." attitude.

Microsoft: Teens don't understand intellectual property (Download Squad)

Feb 14th 2008 12:04PM For some reason, the internet has clouded (some) peoples minds. It seems everything has to be free: access, services AND content.

I'm maintaining a somewhat bigger (Dutch) site, containing 1000+ articles, written by several writers. The articles accumulated over a period of four years. Years in which the site had major upgrades a couple of times, many articles were "upgraded" with sound bites and graphics. In short: the site is the result of a lot of hard work of several people.

Recently I was pointed at a site where they were copy/pasting our articles into their own site. Hundreds of 'em. When I urged the owner to remove these articles immediately, they didn't understand what the big fuss was all about.

Mind boggling...

Microsoft: Teens don't understand intellectual property (Download Squad)

Feb 14th 2008 11:25AM @Bufsabre: Sorry, I obviously overlooked your Ubuntu appraisal.

Microsoft: Teens don't understand intellectual property (Download Squad)

Feb 14th 2008 11:21AM Hehehe, this has the makings of a holy war: Mac-users versus Window-users. Man, does that bring back memories.

Oh, and if you want a free OS (they actually send you the installation CD for free), have a look at Ubuntu.

Microsoft: Teens don't understand intellectual property (Download Squad)

Feb 14th 2008 11:13AM @michael: In 2004 Microsoft was sentenced to pay 497 million Euro and in 2006 to pay an additional 280 million Euro for violating anti-monopoly laws in the European Union.

FYI: (the sum) € 777,000,000 is about $ 1,060,000,000