Hmmm, I just got a lovely little email from some jackass company proporting to represent Microsoft and claiming that I had downloaded Microsoft Office over the bittorrent filesharing system.
Seriously, what a bunch of utter pricks.
Here is a small snippet of the email containing their 'proof' of my evil wrongdoings:
Evidentiary Information:
Notice ID: *******
Asset: Microsoft Office
Protocol: BitTorrent
IP Address: **.**.**.***
DNS:*** .**.**.**.**********.com.au
File Name: Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise & Office 2003 Genuine Advantage Cracked
File Size: 1607964
Timestamp: 19 Apr 2009 **:**:** GMT
Now I'd very much like to actually see a copy of MS Office get crammed into 1.6Mb (though Word 2.0 could fit on 2 floppy disks) so its pretty obvious that these inept jokers are relying completely on the torrent's file name to match up downloads with their client's records.
There is of course, one pretty large problem with doing this as almost anybody could easily see.
I'd have probably got the same stupid notice if I'd have been downloading something titled "MS Office 2007 clip art pack" because, well, the first couple of words match so that means we can ignore the rest because we have ourselves a dirty stinking pirate.
What a bunch of complete tossers.
Now before anyone asks what I was doing downloading an activation crack for Office let me explain. Last year I sold a computer (with proper legal OEM copies of both MS Windows and MS Office 2007) to a business client. About 2 weeks ago this client started getting the dreaded "This copy of MS Office is illegal" message, even though I had supplied them with a complete shrinkwrapped copy of the professional edition complete with COA.
However, as is rumored to occur 20% of the time, Miscrosoft's auto update had gone off to the internet and installed Windows/Office Genuine Advantage software which had then incorrectly identified the client's copy of Office to be illegal.
So the crack was to let them continue using their LEGAL copy of Office that Microsoft had screwed up when verifying its authenticity.
Needless to say I wrote to these idiots, a company called BayTSP telling them in no uncertain terms that they were irretreivable idiots and to get their filtering/matching system an overhaul.
So far, no reply. Figures.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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