Not sure why this was modded 'funny' since it's correct. Furthermore, if the same number of Linux machines are being returned as Windows machines, then that means a significantly higher *percentage* of Linux machines are being returned. Also remember that most people don't know what Linux is and certainly not what Ubuntu is. So even if Dell says it has Ubuntu on it, they assume it's a Windows machine with some mysterious additional software on it.

I can't believe all the people that totally fail to understand what this case is about. It is not about linking to another site; it's about leeching. The host site had videos they collected and hosted and paid bandwidth for, and they want people to view those videos on their website so they might click an ad, compensating for the cost of hosting that video. Plus the user might want to browse around the rest of the site.

But the idiot here hot-linked to those videos from his website, meaning his visitors had no clue they were actually from another site, and the host site's bandwidth was being used up anyway.

The entire internet has not been made illegal because instances of hot-linking are quite rare since most people have learned better.