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Because laws and the consequences for breaking some of them are often morally questionable to a large portion of society. Compounding that, the judiciaries' understanding of esoteric technical topics can be sub-par, and a juries' interpretation can be as predictable as a coin-toss.

That's all to say that, when you are contributing to robbing someone of their freedom, you'd better have a darn good reason for doing so. In this instance, I think many would arrive at the conclusion that Microsoft did not.