Re: Stolen machine, who owns software?

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:21:24 +0200, "Alias"
<aka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Not for one nano second. Hacked XPs don't even ask to be activated.

That was the one I saw on TV. The lady doing the interviewing said
that you simply get a small little utility that you run against XP
somehow and it makes it where XP doesn't even ask to be activated.
She also said that this and 100's of other ways can be downloaded all
over the Internet. So, I went looking and found out she was telling
the truth. Seems as though hackers/pirates aren't exchanging bogus
codes any more, they are just making it where no code is necessary at
all.

>MS claims that piracy is hurting profits. Horsepucky:

Well, it just may be. And, if it is, just how does running the honest
buyers of the software through this activation gimmick change that?

>What their activation and Window Verification scams do is increase MS'
>profits by making paying customers buy more unnecessary copies of XP, not
>stop pirates. This is probably the biggest PR fiasco MS has come up with
>since its inception.

Well, it won't work with me. I OWN two copies of XP. Since I paid
for them, I claim OWNERSHIP to them and all rights to use them for my
own use on my own personal systems no matter how MS might wish to
twist it all around with their fat faced lawyer talk. If MS decides
to refuse me that right, then I now know where those little utilities
are that will let me continue to use a product that I have already
paid for.

Don't get me wrong, each one of my copies will never be on more than
one machine (each) at a time. No copies will ever be distributed.
But if some jerk swipes my computer(s) or they blow up or get damaged
or any other of a 100 different ways that a system can be made
unusable, I still have the original disks in a bank vault so I STILL
OWN the software and will use it on my replacement systems no matter
what MS tries to pull on me. If they refuse, I'll just rustle me up
one of those hacker's utilities because... I PAID FOR THIS SOFTWARE!

Regards,
.

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