Comments on: Convicted BitTorrent Admin Fights for his Right to Use Linux http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Anonymous Guy /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-390775 Wed, 21 May 2008 21:29:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-390775 I am a Kubuntu user myself so I completely understand his position. He has my full support for the government to build linux-based monitoring software. I hope he wins in court, but if that is not the case, perhaps he can use VirtualBox and install Linux on that.

If they can’t monitor virtual machines, then isn’t it still perfectly legal?

]]> By: Crow /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-370652 Sat, 03 May 2008 12:59:53 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-370652 [quote comment="161438"]I bet he was someone’s bitch in prison…

“So what are you in for?”

“I uploaded a bootleg of Episode 3…You?”

“Murdered an entire family then ate them…You might wanna just take your pants off now…”[/quote]

Hahaha..
Funny one :p

]]> By: jnak /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-297460 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:41:28 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-297460 probation is shit, in the state i live, it costs $150 a month. that shit isn’t funny. you’re constantly monitored. the fucking system wants to control your schedule, and if you break any rule, out you go. that’s what it’s like. for all of you fucking law abiding citizens out there, you don’t know the fucking law. the only reason you haven’t been criminally prosecuted is because you aren’t constantly monitored. when the government monitors every second of your life, then life will really go to shit.

]]> By: jerome /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-249004 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:28:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-249004 sk0t should do the community a service and use windows.

That way the snoops won’t have to bother developing Linux monitoring software, leaving the rest of the Linux using community free of being snooped upon!

]]> By: Grendel /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-163133 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:15:38 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-163133 If I could afford it, I would sneak an Ultra Mobile PC to you.

:D

]]> By: Sean /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162794 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:28:20 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162794 “No precedent of which I am aware says that a criminal has to pay his own money to fulfill the terms of his sentence in a criminal trial.”

When under house arrest, you have to pay a fee for the ankle bracelet.

]]> By: Nephilim /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162791 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:20:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162791 It would be interesting to see how this plays out. Certainly the court could decide that he has to use Windows. If they can put a man in a cell and never let him out, an OS seems to be a minor sentence. The real trick here is whether or not they can force him to PURCHASE a copy. No precedent of which I am aware says that a criminal has to pay his own money to fulfill the terms of his sentence in a criminal trial. (That would be civil law unless I’m much mistaken.)
Of course the ruling could simply state that the defendant must run Windows or nothing, and thus force the issue.
Oh, and I believe Wine is run in something akin to a VM, so you could run Wine and the spyware but it would only monitor things accessible to the Wine program.
What COULD work is to run a Windows box as a proxy to route net traffic. That all depends on whether or not the spyware is designed to monitor processes or just net traffic…

]]> By: Linux News Log » Blog Archive » Linux News Log Podcast #136 /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162782 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:01:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162782 [...] Convicted BitTorrent Admin Fights for his Right to Use Linux [...]

]]> By: An0nym0us /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162373 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:20:20 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162373 seeing as i am being blocked from sk0t’s page… keep in mind sk0t, your real friends are still here even if we are in silence due to all the shit the US is putting you throu, but I know that we will rise again. keep your head up as better days are soon to come for you.

CTIDU

]]> By: The Great Geek Manual News » Convicted BitTorrent Admin Fights for his Right to Use Linux /convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162313 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:58:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/convicted-bittorrent-admin-fights-for-right-to-use-linux-070908/#comment-162313 [...] Read the Entire Story…Source: Torrent Freak [...]

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