Microsoft attempts to prevent legal licence transfers.
POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Thursday, October 19, 2006 20:13
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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Which is precisely why we need the hackers to target this particular feature. If they're just mindlessly hacking, that's one thing (and there haven't been any truly destructive viruses for a while, not like the good old days of Chenobyl) but if this specific part of Windows is targeted, Microsoft will be overwhelmed.
Yes, it's blackmail but it's blackmail against Microsoft, the lying, lawbreaking monopolistic sons of bitches. So that makes it all right.
1) One does not "mindlessly" hack.
2) Distructive viruses/trojans/etc are only wanted by 16 yr olds angry at the world wanting to cause chaos. No good comes from them.
3) M$ will be overwhelmed until a patch is released. Then its business as usual.
4) It's only blackmail if and only if there isn't an easier, cheaper way out of it. That easier cheaper way is the patch, which makes this needless distruction of personal propery have no gain.
5) Blackmail is NEVER all right.
6) Grow up.
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Originally posted by citizen:
All good points missing one thing.
This 'protection' could very well be illegal in it's own right, if as I suspect it does infringe on the consumers statuatory rights.
But they'll get away with it because laws are not something to be used against large corporations.
Very true on all counts.
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It's not business as usual if there's billions of dollars worth of data loss/made public. Then its lawsuit time.
Why are you so eager to protect Microsoft? No hack of any significance can take place without a flaw within their software and yet will they admit liability for this under their new extended 1 year warranty? Doubtful.
They're an ugly, bullying, deceitful company, as has been revealed many times over in the uncovering of internal documents in court cases against their practices. When the law is unable or unwilling to defend citizens against an aggressive force, sometimes people have to take matters into their own hands.
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
I understand your fustration w/ M$. . . . etc until I moved over to the Mac (haven't looked back since; things just work). I love my mini
I'm in complete agreement. I'd take a Mac over a M$ system every time.
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You know what, the law itself concerning such things is plainly ludicrous.
I don't see how the hell anyone was ever stupid enough to allow the law to be manipulated so that you wind not even actually owning an item you paid for.
Once you have purchased a product, and brought it onto your property, imop, it belongs to YOU, and what you do with it is entirely your discretion, and if the product is boobytrapped or rigged to prevent you from using it in a manner that pleases you, so long as it harms no one, you've got every damned right to circumvent or disable such things.
What are we, slaves ? this is plainly asinine.
Property ownership is one of the primary basic differences between slaves and free people, and we're slowly losing that distinction, rented property, leased cars, end-user-rights instead of ownership ?
Selling our soul cheap, aren't we ?
If I paid good money for it, and it's on MY land, I OWN it, and so long as it harms no one, will do what the hell I please with it, period.
Companies have manipulated the law for their own advantage here, and if we just meekly accept this bullshit, it will continue.
-Frem
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Quote:Actually I'm waiting for the test case over here for something similar.
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Once you have purchased a product, and brought it onto your property, imop, it belongs to YOU, and what you do with it is entirely your discretion, and if the product is boobytrapped or rigged to prevent you from using it in a manner that pleases you, so long as it harms no one, you've got every damned right to circumvent or disable such things.
UK law expressly permits the customer to make a copy of CD's and DVD's for backup purposes. That's a legally protected right. So when a company puts copy protection on their trying to prevent you exercising you're legal rights.
Fortunately we could circumnavigate this copy protection. Unfortunately recently the UK Government made breaking copy protection illegal, which ironically technically means putting copy protection on a CD is illegal because doing so forces the customer to break the law in order to exercise their legal right to create a backup.
I'm waiting for the test case where someone acting perfectly legally is shafted by a corporation acting illegal. I suspect rights will be trampled in favour of Corporate profits, but I live in hope that for a change justice will prevail in law.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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And why exactly is anyone surprised that Microsoft is doing this?
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/
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Windows will eventually be replaced. People seldom seem to recall that OS's used to become extinct all the time. After several evolutions of a particular OS, some other OS was revolutionarily better, and eclipsed it. Think of how DOS was replaced by windows, and why things like the GEM desktop and the original LISA OS don't crop up these days. It's not about "better" on a holistic level, since nothing is wrong with the GEM desktop, in fact, it's in many ways superior, but it can't do everything windows can, and that's the deciding factor, the make or break of natural selection.
The next OS will be one which does certain things very very well:
1. Starts quickly, hopefully instantly.
2. Doesn't forget when you turn it off.
3. Surfs the web quickly.
4. Handles text, graphics, video, very well.
5. Never crashes.
And how well such an OS does these:
6. runs existing stand alone software
7. handles complex rendering capability
8. has great interactive multiuser controls
Might be relegated to the world of game consol.
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