Anti-piracy Laws Bite Microsoft in the Ass

[rabbit]

Here's the thing. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a federal statute. The first litigation was under state laws. The CFAA is one of the serious, heavy-handed computer abuse laws Hollywood and other content owners dream about, designed to deal with "pirates" and "hackers". And now, ironically enough, it is being applied to Microsoft, and I have to say, if all you look at is the actions and compare with the statute, it does seem to match up.

Microsoft is in the midst of a second class action lawsuit against WGA.  MS has also released some shady uninstall instructions for WGA and, hopefully, will eventually remove it entirely!

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060705042741949

[Sidoh]

This is good news...

[dark_drake]

Awesome!

[Warrior]

This whole thing is rediculous, Apple phones home I don't see anyone on their balls over it. Also, it's impossible to uninstall the option for Apple to phone home.

[iago]

This whole thing is rediculous, Apple phones home I don't see anyone on their balls over it. Also, it's impossible to uninstall the option for Apple to phone home.

We talked about that before, and phoning home is only a small part of the problem. 

But out of curiosity, can you explain more about Apple's phoning home?  I mean, Windows phones home to check for updates, and nobody cares, because that's totally different. 

[Warrior]

This whole thing is rediculous, Apple phones home I don't see anyone on their balls over it. Also, it's impossible to uninstall the option for Apple to phone home.

We talked about that before, and phoning home is only a small part of the problem. 

But out of curiosity, can you explain more about Apple's phoning home?  I mean, Windows phones home to check for updates, and nobody cares, because that's totally different. 

Apple iirc reports statistics about your computer after an update and according to a person who checked it out, phoned home twice in 3 hours.