Four jailed in China for pirating Windows XP...

In what is a rare demonstration of China taking a hard line on piracy four individuals have received prison sentences for distributing illegal copies of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system.

The version being distributed was called “Tomato Garden Windows XP” and was available from the website tomatolei.com (which now redirects to Google) for anyone to download. That version of the OS proved very popular not only because it was free, but because the people making it available had managed to circumvent all authentication and security checks Microsoft uses. The result was an OS with all features available and updates possible. Money was made through advertisements on what was obviously a very popular site. More...

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