If You're Going To Steal Software, Steal From Us: Microsoft Exec

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If you're going to be a software counterfeiter, then please copy and illegally use Microsoft products.
The above plea isn't from a posting on a hacker forum. Rather, it's how Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes feels about software counterfeiters. "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else," Raikes said.
The remarks might seem surprising, coming from a senior executive at a software company that spends millions each year fighting software piracy and developing copyright protection technologies. InformationWeek has more.