On: Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live...

[pavel_lishin]

I don't disagree, but how would you implement this?

Results trump ideals every time.

[m_for_monkey → pavel_lishin]

If this is really a serious problem, then they should send an informative email to every user, say once every week about spamming, phising, passwords, etc. Of course, it should be easy opt out.

Moreover, when I last used Windows (XP, 2008), executables could still masquerading as .doc files. This would be easy enough to solve for MS, I think.

[pavel_lishin → m_for_monkey]

> then they should send an informative email to every user, say once every week about spamming, phising, passwords, etc.

Which would be annoying. Users would either block it or ignore it.

> Of course, it should be easy opt out.

If it was easy enough, everyone would, rendering it useless.

[m_for_monkey → pavel_lishin]

If the e-mails are well-written, they will like it. You can't protect people from their own stupidity. Except maybe with censoring like this, but then we have another problem.