MSI Wind launch was delayed by ripped movies, family photos?

Here's an interesting, albeit confusing, story: we're getting word that MSI has recalled some Wind laptops running SUSE Linux, since some random oddities had snuck onto the disk image. Namely, illegal screener copies of movies and some family photos. That could explain MSI's temporary delay in shipping this thing out -- a preemptive recall -- but the when, where and what of the recall are a bit hazy, so we recommend rummaging around for the files just in case they're eating up your hard drive room or contain that one flick you were dying to watch with large "Screener copy!" signs flashing past.

[Thanks, Patrick S.]

[Ken @ Sep 5th 2008 5:24PM]

Now that's QUALITY!!

[nerdtalker @ Sep 5th 2008 5:30PM]

At least it wasn't goatse.

[cesium @ Sep 5th 2008 5:31PM]

Someone's getting sacked

[MMaster23 @ Sep 7th 2008 11:12AM]

best. avatar. ever.

[iEye @ Sep 5th 2008 5:37PM]

They should just pre-"load" these thing with Pron...

[Pumping_Iron @ Sep 5th 2008 5:43PM]

Hahaha....in the customization section (if they had), before you purchase it online !
"Please choose your porn genre: ..........
.......... "

:P

[Mic2000 @ Sep 5th 2008 6:14PM]

"We, as a company, found a new way to adjust ourselves to our core market!"

[Jon Doe. @ Sep 6th 2008 12:31AM]

Damn skippy. I can imagine a drop down box allowing you to select various pron collections preloaded. Hell MSI should have a playboy themed Wind. Yes I'm a sick sick sick man. :-D And loving every second of it.

[Michael @ Sep 5th 2008 5:39PM]

In the original article on German news site Heise, you can read that it's the Wind nettop that is affected, not the Wind notebook. Please correct that, Engadget.

[Brian @ Sep 5th 2008 5:42PM]

Hot lawlz!

[Eugenia Loli-Queru @ Sep 5th 2008 5:39PM]

Well, that's how most Asian companies work. An engineer would just work on a local copy, tweak it and stuff, and then release it to his company as "stable". Little that they know, how this copy is not an official copy, but a used copy of an engineer who might have added stuff in there in the process of testing the installation for a few weeks.

That's how many mp3 players from Asia end up having viruses and trojans too.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru @ Sep 5th 2008 6:25PM]

John, your sarcasm doesn't work. The firmware of the iPhone is done in the US under very professional measures, only the hardware is made in China. And yes, while it's not always the case, there is a high probability that software done in Asia is not very fool proof. China is a good hardware country, but it's less of a software place. If you prefer better software, go to India. Problem is, China and India don't work together. Korea is also a hardware place more than software one, while Taiwan in mixed. Japan also has better hardware than it has software, but at least, they are professional in the way they release it.

[cesium @ Sep 5th 2008 6:25PM]

Uhh theyre made in china, not japan..

[Eugenia Loli-Queru @ Sep 5th 2008 6:31PM]

No, it's not offensive, it's the truth for MOST of these companies in Asia (not all, of course). They are simply not as serious about software as they are about hardware. It has nothing to do with offensiveness or racism or any other off topic crap that you spew over here in your effort to belittle me. I am a reviewer and I have reviewed COUNTLESS Asian products. I have YET to see one that has software that it's as polished as it is from a product in the US or Europe. Heck, just two days ago I received a Taiwanese online radio device, that when it's left to sleep for more than 3 hours, it never wakes up! How is that for "testing"? Do these people even test their final products? This bug was so easy to find that was not even funny.

And it was JUST LAST MONTH where I received a chinese mp3 player for a review with a Trojan in it. So I don't have to go years ago to find "a bad example". So stop your sarcastic comments and try to understand what I am saying here. I am not your average Joe on a forum. I have experience with the market.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Sep 6th 2008 8:05AM]

Can someone be banned from Engadget?

There's so many racially insensitive comments in here I lost count.

"then afterwards, they'll spit on the inside of the car because japanese people like to spit."

Trolling is one thing, but this guy is just asking for it.

[Jamar @ Sep 7th 2008 2:06AM]

@john a smith- And I've put my Panasonic laptop through lots of situations where a similar HP would have died (try dropping a HP laptop down a flight of stairs- is it still working? or even in one piece, for that matter?). Same with cars- There's a reason I avoid Ford when it comes time to get a rental.
and as for your comment about Honda's manufacturing practices- That doesn't sound like anything that one could possibly experience while sober. Lay off the mind-altering chemicals, plz.

[Jamar @ Sep 7th 2008 2:09AM]

And just to be sure- you're beyond help.

[Brian @ Sep 5th 2008 6:21PM]

DVD Screeners don't have words flying past. Release groups in the movie scene wouldn't do that to people.

obviously someone has never downloaded a DVDSCR.

[cesium @ Sep 5th 2008 6:26PM]

Clearly you've never seen a dvd screener. there are tons of them (from quality groups) that have random copyright text and whatnot

[wickedpheonix @ Sep 5th 2008 6:28PM]

depends on the release - I had a copy of Superbad that had "this is the property of" watermarked on the video when Superbad first came out.

[6545654 @ Sep 5th 2008 7:00PM]

Transsiberian.LIMITED.DVDSCR.XviD-ALLiANCE and other rls too (same source)

http://i33.tinypic.com/dxnuyf.png

[kg @ Sep 5th 2008 6:34PM]

the latest chapter in the msi wind debacle

[john is crazy, man @ Sep 5th 2008 6:39PM]

that john is one crazy guy.

[James @ Sep 5th 2008 6:58PM]

Haha! Take a look at the 'read' link, it mentions "Buyers of compact nuclear PC with Linux" - Google Translator made my day :)

[andres @ Sep 6th 2008 2:07AM]

now if we just overclock the processor a little OH SHIT MELTDOWN

[M7 @ Sep 5th 2008 7:40PM]

Could someone enlighten me - where exactly does one purchase an MSI Wind running SUSE? All the versions I see here for sale are XP or do we not have the linux version yet?

[Michael @ Sep 6th 2008 9:12AM]

As I mentioned earlier, the recall affects the Wind nettop, not the laptop. That put aside, you can buy a Wind laptop shipping with SuSE Linux in some countries, e.g. in France.

[BOGRASH @ Sep 5th 2008 11:54PM]

FUCK MSI

[whiskey @ Sep 6th 2008 12:04PM]

Pirate movies and family photos? at least that's way more classy than getting pr0n.

Do i get to choose the movie? LOL

[thedesolate1 @ Sep 7th 2008 9:46PM]

You sure it wasn't "Pirates Of Silicon Valley"?

[Net-Bookworm @ Sep 9th 2008 9:38PM]

The MSI Wind is one of the best netbooks I have seen come out of the flurry of netbooks that has hit the market in the past few months. It offers a 10″ widescreen, Intel Atom processor, and WIFI with Bluetooth priced well under what some of the other mainstream competition charge. All of this seems to come with a small problem: Battery life. MSI is only selling the 3-cell batteries, which averages just over 2 hours of continuous use. This is not good. Well, now it is available with a 6-cell accessory battery.

For the $500 price you really couldn’t ask for much more beyond the longer-lived battery. The screen is really not bad, the keyboard is great, build quality is top notch.
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