kaled - 12:30 am on May 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

It wasn't just MSN. A few months ago, I found I had to change the User Agent on Opera to view the MSDN site. (Microsoft Developers Network)

As for it not being illegal, I would expect such practices to be illegal throughout most of the developed world.

I seem to recall that MS got into trouble for causing a program to deliberately crash when run under DRDOS many moons ago - the program might even have been an early version of Windows.

Kaled.