Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Microsoft case results in prison time for restore CD copier." video.

  1. Ignorance or corruption, which for a justice system should be one and the same. If you don't have the competence to understand very basic concepts on the case, you shouldn't be judging it period. This guy shouldn't be in jail, he should be having his services recognized as a good thing for the entire community he lives in, and for society in general. It's a perversion of justice. Inversion of values. This guy was helping to keep eWaste out of the environment, helping people to make good use of their computers until their real lifecycles came to an end. Furthermore, Microsoft defense is complete absurdity. This case sets a horrible precendent which basically threats people who burn software in media to think twice about what they are doing. It goes against a huge part of what IT technicians do and have been doing for decades now, it threats a whole ton of jobs in the service for tech area, and it's such a ridiculous misinterpretation of law that I'm hugely inclined to think it's actually corruption, not simple ignorance. Microsoft has been on a downhill since Windows 7. Whoever took charge there will be sorely remember for making Microsoft and Windows lose trust of tons of their clients, for making decisions that's forcing tons of people to reconsinder their OS of choice, and for some of the dumbest hard headed and narrow minded crap that I've seen in this company since I started using it back in DOS days. The forced updated scandal, the braindead persistence on Windows Store, the studipidity what was and continue being Windows 10S, the complete failure of Windows Mobile, the attempts of copying and glamourizing their best branding of recent years (Surface), the absolute horrible quality control of Surface devices... I will disagree with Louis on the company not innovating - they have certainly done some stuff right in the past decade or so. Unfortunately, most of the stuff they did right comes with a huge baggage of setbacks and failures with it too. Windows 7 was a good OS in the right direction. But since then they absolutely destroyed it by forcing a Windows Store no one uses, adopting telemetry crap, inventing crap versions no one needs (like Windows 10S), and just overall being assholes about the whole thing. Since Windows 8 I have been learning and moving towards Linux, and the only reason I haven't fully gone just yet is because they have an iron grip on gaming. But I don't discard a full migration because that's just how bad Microsoft has become. Again, I've been using Microsoft since early DOS days. I went through multiple iterations of Windows, and I even think that at several points there was an unecessary overraction against the company. Windows ME was really crap, pure and simple. Vista became way better after some updates, which is something all Windows versions did to a point. Most of Surface products are not bad from a design standpoint - for the most part, because SE was a failure and the company seems to have learned nothing from that experience - but availability and pricing is cost prohibitive for lots of us. But in recent years, the company is in a downward spiral. I don't think it's gonna die because of how much of an iron grip they have on a whole ton of areas, including enterprise, and like I said, on gaming and some professional software suits. But the goodwill is running out fast, and I'm downright disgusted with the company. I used to have some sympathy with all the crap that was thrown at them, which at the time was mostly from ill informed people... but nowadays they deserve all the crap that is thrown against them. That has been the main difference in recent years. The vast majority of bad news going around the company is something that they have really brought upon themselves, they have no excuses for the sort of behaviour they are actively promoting inside the company, and they deserve to die as a company for their actions. No jokes. All the past scandals from Microsoft have all been justified. Scummy tactics to force people into Windows 10, products no one asked for and no one cares about, forced telemetry that after all the outrage it generated still wasn't eliminated with some extremely flimsy justifications, a scandal of defective products coming from their prized and overpriced Surface line... the list just keeps going. The past few administrations have been ruining a company that while it wasn't all that great before, at least they had some standards. Now it's just bullshit one after the other.
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