[Nick Fury]

I would love to see this case tried because the first thing is that MS isn't going to give up source without a very long and drawn out fight. I point to SCO case. SCO isn't nearly as powerful as MS and they haven't shown any code yet. Secondly you are still talking about a pirate Vs a capitalist company. Under the current circumstance and media hype surrounding piracy and the fact that it is constantly portrayed in a bad light, no court or judge is likely to take a case like this serious. Also, intentional damage isn't being caused by Microsoft because you can't update a product you didn't pay for. The only person causing damage is the virus writer (I'm not gonna say if that is intentional or not, it's irrelevant). The fact of the matter is that MS is discouraging piracy of their products. Also, updates and such are a service, not a part of the product. I already brought up the point that the pirate didn't pay for the license so is the pirate entitled to the service that the license provides? (although the WinXP EULA doesn't provide a service for updates).

As per the movie/record industry deleting files form a hard drive. This is a different matter altogether. These people don't have the right to create malicious code just as much as I don't have that right to. I don't care if you have a devine purpose or not, you don't have the right to destory data on my systems without my permission. MS isn't destorying data though, they aren't releasing viruses they are only denying access to updates, which is understandable in my opinion.