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A guy who uploaded the latest Star Wars movie got arrested, pleaded guilty to 'conspiracy to commit copyright infringement' and 'criminal copyright infringement' and got jail and home confinement. As part of his home confinement, he agreed to install some tracking software on his computer. The problem is He's an Ubuntu Linux user and the gov't doesn't have any tracking software for Linux. So he's been told that he must use Windows for the term of his confinement.

Looks like a case of cruel and unusual punishment to me.

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Looks like a case of cruel and unusual punishment to me.

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freydis Newbie

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Heheh..... leave it to the government to be cheap and unprepared.....

one of these days i will get around to partitioning my machine for dual boot....

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I can help with that!!!

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OMFG!!! I swear if I was "forced" to use Windows which I haven't had in nearly a year now, I would be pretty upset...

I'm not a big Windows hater or anything, and love some of the music applications that are out for it now, but damn.

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Did they say he's banned from anything but windows, or just linux?

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Did they say he's banned from anything but windows, or just linux?

Their tracking app only works on windows.

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Their tracking app only works on windows.

I didn't ask what their app works on, I asked what he was specifically banned from.

I like loopholes and fucking with the man any chance I get :D

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I didn't ask what their app works on, I asked what he was specifically banned from.

I like loopholes and fucking with the man any chance I get :D

He uses Ubuntu linux. Even BSD wouldn't be allowd since his activity has to be monitored, and their monitoring app only works on Windows.

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He uses Ubuntu linux. Even BSD wouldn't be allowd since his activity has to be monitored, and their monitoring app only works on Windows.

Well obviously, but did they specifically say that? I like technicalities.

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Well obviously, but did they specifically say that? I like technicalities.

I had a meeting with my probation officer today, and he told me that he has to install monitoring software onto my PC. No big deal to me, that is part of my sentence. However, their software doesnt support GNU/Linux (Which is what I use). So, he told me that if I want to use a computer, I would have to use an OS that the software can be installed on.

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