Microsoft Tries to Pull Material off Slashdot
from the more-questions dept
I’m sure all the Slashdot readers already know about this one, but it’s worth posting anyway. It seems that Microsoft has asked Slashdot to remove some postings which they say contains confidential information. Slashdot has been trying to figure out what to do. Of course, once the information is out, it’s going to be hard to take it away again. This is definitely another tricky legal question. How do people feel about this? Is Microsoft just being pushy, or do they have a real claim here?
Comments on “Microsoft Tries to Pull Material off Slashdot”
Quick and easy fix.
One. Remove the info. No prob..once off their site…they don’t need to be involved.
Two. Kill the user’s accounts. Tough….
Three. Some of them were ACs, and ..well…hell. Give their IP to MS. I know it is BAD for them to get this info, but …people know better then to post MissionImpossiable info.
Sometimes you gotta wonder...
…what goes through Microsoft’s corporate mind. Even if they are in the right, asking the slashdot community to remove posts is like asking the Cuban-American community to give up Elian. What kind of reaction did they expect?
Re: Sometimes you gotta wonder...
Actually that is a really good point. They just drew so much attention to the “offending” posts, that otherwise probably would have passed on.
Re: Re: Sometimes you gotta wonder...
Uh, yeah. I thought it was really funny when I read the MS email to slashdot and it actually linked all the offending comments for the convenience of the slashdot community to go look up in case they’d missed it the first time… I actually thought it was some sort of well-written prank b/c “how could MS be so dumb?” Oh wait. Nevermind….