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"Bug" my arse...someone was trying to prove a point / make a statement and it bit them. Hard.

They will have to do some heavy backpedaling for me to believe it was a bug. I'm a developer. Ive created bugs and fixed bugs. This is not a bug. This is a "feature".

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No, you see, triggering it for a legitimate user was a bug. In other words, they are unrepentant for including this feature in the first place, even though it's totally scummy and possibly illegal even when targeted at someone who really did pirate the software.

It may well have been a "fun thing" they added in there, but never intended to release to the public. The "bug" could well have been that it was enabled in the public release.

So, it's a feature, but the bug could have been that it was unintentionally 'enabled'.

So they created a weapon and accidentally fired it at someone? In most jurisdictions, that would still be an offence.

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