Shoutbox

Again, you are given such information as a BETA TESTER, NOT as a news reporter!!!!!!!!!! And you should treat it as such. If you fail to make that distinction, or you don't even know what the difference is then you should NOT be a beta tester, butterfly, Plus! tester, etc, at all since you obviously can NOT be trusted with inside info... If MS knows you are going to publish it anyways, they wouldn't give you that info in the first place*!

You** are seriously confusing freedom of speech, digital copyright acts and whatever other things for the stuff which they ARE NOT meant for.

If I would start to publish all the stuff I know about members of this community, I would go down as not very trustworthy in no time, and spewed out by many in seconds. It is exactly the same thing.

It is all about trust, not about freedom of speech. At least, if you use the freedom of speech argument in such cases you obviously do not know what "freedom of speech" realy means.

And the goverment, companies or organisations have every right (in fact, the duty!) to try and stop such leaks by their "employees"! And as a beta tester you are a kind of "employee" of MS; you agree with keeping "employee-only" information to yourself. If you don't agree with it, you shouldn't be a tester in the first place, no harm done, and nobody would complain about it, simple as that.

* And that is exactly why people should blame these stupid leakers for MS not giving any more information to beta testers, butterflies and/or other insiders.

** I know I focus on you with this, absorbation. But this, obviously, goes for everybody else who agrees with you, it's not just a personal attack.

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Of course the world isn't going to end now, lol. But that doesn't mean no harm is done, nor does it mean you have the right to publish such info.