QuoteHere'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
This is good news... :D
Awesome!
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.
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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.
Quote from: iago on July 13, 2006, 01:51:59 PM
Quote from: Warriorx86] link=topic=6638.msg80781#msg80781 date=1152809720]
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.