You cannot be for the free enterprise system only when it is convienient. Being pissed at people who have found a way to profit from their LEGAL activities is a sure sign of poor self-esteem. If you feel that you can profit from Microsoft by being a part owner and stakeholder, put your money up front! That is really what it is all about. I buy Microsoft stock, Google stock, and Cisco stock because I think those companies can turn a profit. I want them all to use every LEGAL means available to increase the value of my stock. I am, after all, part owner.

If I owned a grocery store, I would get pissed when people stole bananas out of my produce section... and so would you, because I would have to bundle the price of the looted ones into the price of the ones you bought.

Quit defending criminals and start taking a clear view of business and the realities of making a profit in the marketplace. If Microsoft could wipe out all instances of pirating tomorrow there would be a lot of very rich stockholders marching rightously to the bank the next day. Microsoft stock is held by literally hundreds of million of people world-wide.

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