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Offline iago

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Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« on: June 30, 2006, 09:38:18 am »
... because anybody who doesn't use WGA by this fall might not get to use their computer:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/29/1657241
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2006, 09:47:47 am »
Meh. 
Will it help increase MS's legit sales? probably.
Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.
Will most of those people be people that wouldn't give MS money anyway? of course.
Will there be a hack to bypass this? I don't see why not.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2006, 11:20:45 am »
Cool.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2006, 01:23:22 pm »
Quote from: iago on June 30, 2006, 09:38:18 am
... because anybody who doesn't use WGA by this fall might not get to use their computer:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/29/1657241
I wonder if this will affect 56k users. :P
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2006, 01:28:11 pm »
Quote from: unTactical on June 30, 2006, 09:47:47 am
Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.

Tough shit.  The only thing that they have the right to complain about is that they were too cheap-ass to get a legitimate copy of Windows in the first place.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2006, 01:31:33 pm »
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on June 30, 2006, 01:28:11 pm
Quote from: unTactical on June 30, 2006, 09:47:47 am
Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.

Tough shit.  The only thing that they have the right to complain about is that they were too cheap-ass to get a legitimate copy of Windows in the first place.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2006, 01:41:26 pm »
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on June 30, 2006, 01:28:11 pm
Quote from: unTactical on June 30, 2006, 09:47:47 am
Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.

Tough shit.  The only thing that they have the right to complain about is that they were too cheap-ass to get a legitimate copy of Windows in the first place.

Quote from: unTactical
Will most of those people be people that wouldn't give MS money anyway? of course.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2006, 02:39:44 pm »
Are there going to be alot of Linux conversions then?.....that'd be interesting
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2006, 03:01:12 pm »
Probably some, but not many.  Perhaps more Mac conversions. 
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2006, 03:19:25 pm »
Lol I'd point someone to Linux before Mac..
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2006, 03:46:24 pm »
I bet Microsoft would too.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2006, 03:47:45 pm »
Somehow this sounds like an idle threat to me. It'd go against all common sense and opens the door for a shitload of legal problems to go around 'disabling' windows installs without WGA. The first time some critical windows box gets disabled and Microsoft would be in lawsuit hell.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2006, 03:56:27 pm »
well in that news i better get a genuine copy  :o
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2006, 04:12:03 pm »
They're getting really aggressive on pirating and I can't blame them really. I'd do the same and then some. If I were them I'd block out all Windows updates unless you pass WGA. I do think their continous checking is somewhat extreme.
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Re: Better make sure your windows copy is legal...
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2006, 05:09:43 pm »
Heh, I don't need to worry about this, Windows 2000 Pro  :).

2000 Pro always did every I needed, so I never upgraded to XP.
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