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Offline Kosh

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Is best buy pirating software?
on: April 13, 2006, 10:11:21 pm
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060413-6596.html

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Winternals, the Texas software company known for programs such as ERD Commander 2005, has filed suit against electronics retailing giant Best Buy this week, claiming that the company has been using thousands of unlicensed copies of their software in stores across the nation. A judge has already granted a temporary restraining order against Best Buy, ordering them to refrain from using any unlicensed Winternals software

I really didn't see this coming......
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Offline Corsair

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #1 on: April 13, 2006, 10:31:05 pm
:wtf:

For real? Who would be that stupid?
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #2 on: April 13, 2006, 10:59:22 pm
:wtf:
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #3 on: April 13, 2006, 11:09:19 pm
Btw, has anyone even heard of "Winternals" or "ERD Commander 2005" before?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #4 on: April 13, 2006, 11:11:49 pm
Not me.

Shades of some other unknown companies suing everyone in sight for software using dubious proprietary code claims? Naaaahhh...
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Offline Nix

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #5 on: April 14, 2006, 01:41:09 am
Winternals.. ah yes..  a POS I used at work once.  I think it was a utility that allowed you to boot into a goofed up machine to get it to work again or to get data out before a reformat.  Then I got smart and just made Ghost images of the compromised drives and viewed them got the data out in the Windows Ghost image viewer utility. 
It's been ages, and I've only really used it once, seems like something stupid the "geek (gunk) squad" would use. 

 

Offline kode

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #6 on: April 17, 2006, 03:37:32 am
Quote from: Kosh on April 13, 2006, 11:09:19 pm
Btw, has anyone even heard of "Winternals" or "ERD Commander 2005" before?

I really hadn't heard of SAP and SPSS until a few months ago either.
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Offline redmenace

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Reply #7 on: April 17, 2006, 08:19:08 am
Actually, it was the "Geek Squad" that was pirating it.
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Offline Turambar

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #8 on: April 17, 2006, 08:37:58 am
Quote from: redmenace on April 17, 2006, 08:19:08 am
Actually, it was the "Geek Squad" that was pirating it.

well at least now we know that they're real legitimate geeks!!
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Offline Triple Ace

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Re: Is best buy pirating software?
Reply #9 on: April 18, 2006, 11:12:52 am
Quote from: redmenace on April 17, 2006, 08:19:08 am
Actually, it was the "Geek Squad" that was pirating it.

Damn those pirating nerds.
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