Moron of the Week #2

While it's quite tempting to declare Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the Moron of the Week for his innovative interpretation of the Constitution, I will stand by my self-imposed rule of only considering unknowns. This week, the honor goes to a true unknown. There were a few contenders this week. I was having a difficult time choosing a winner because there was nothing that really made any one of them stand out. Then I read a comment on one of my RegCure posts (the posts that attract idiots like moths to a flame). The other contenders are out the window now. The blog post in question is a short diatribe I wrote against people coming to this blog looking for a free registration key for the excellent RegCure program, i.e. people looking to pirate the program. Rather than asking you to click through to the comment thread, I'll quote here the astute reasoning that catapulted this week's winner to the top:
Look dude. The only ones who are actually doing something illegal/immoral are the ones who put the damn trojans and other malware out there to get on our computers. For these companies that offer this type of protection, like regkey(orwhatever), and expect us to pay for it can kiss my ass. They are the ones putting these horrible programs out there and making money everytime we buy their software to take care of it. Yes you may say that I am a conspiracy theorist, and you may be right. I know what goes on and im fed up with it. I do nothing to deserve this type of treatment. All I want and deserve, just like every other American, is free protection for our home computers. Make Corporate America pay for it. God knows how much they make off of us every hour. And the fact that you say that we are stealing, the ones who are stealing is the companies that offer the “protection” with their godawful profit margins. Anyone who makes that much money off innocent human beings shoud be “thrown to the wolves!”
To summarize, this person, who posted under the name "Steven", is quite sure that the makers of software intended to protect your computer are also the makers of the malicious software you need to protect against. He understands that one of his rights as an American Citizen is to be granted free protection for his home computers. Furthermore, he is a champion of human rights, decrying the egregious offense of charging innocent human beings for goods and services. Most of which has nothing to do with RegCure -- a program that does nothing to protect your computer (it only cleans out invalid registry entries and program shortcuts) and is developed by a relatively small company. So thank you, Steven, for your astounding logic and your courage to voice your opposition to the evils of a free market. My reply to your comment was not at all what you deserved, so here I make up for it by bestowing upon you the title, "Moron of the Week #2". Thank you for making this an easy decision.
Jan 20th, 2007
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