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Found this little tidbit through Geek News Central. Appearantly Microsoft tried to shut down a site called MacSlash, because someone posted a comment containing a possible Longhorn serial number 8 months ago. Instead of doing the logical thing and contacting MacSlash and asking them to delete it, they rallied their team of lawyers into action and contacted the sites hosting provider, demanding that they shut the site down.

Being the good guys that they are, digital.forest promptly got in touch with Microsoft (email reprinted with permission below the fold) with a response: No way.

Way to go Microsoft! You’ve once again managed to completely bypass the polite way of dealing with a situation like that and basically accomplish nothing more than giving MacSlash a ton of publicity. For the record, it seems like a great site, I’m glad Microsoft pointed it out to me!