Re: Finally, MS is doing the right thing about Piracy

Leythos wrote:
In article <OWSvqfO$GHA.1200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, aka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Leythos wrote:
In article <ujV1dcN$GHA.3584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, aka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-31T082005Z_01_L31884884_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-URGENT.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

Yes, MS, this is the correct way, not forcing your paying customers to prove their innocence and assuming they are guilty.
MS is not changing how they do things - they just expanded the way they have been going after pirates to include more than a few countries.

They have always gone after pirates and "customers", so nothing is different.

It wasn't really a long article, Leythos. From the article:

"Today's announcement marks ... ***the first time*** the company has focused its efforts worldwide to bring legal action against online dealers,"

My point, which you missed, was that this is the way to deal with pirates, not assume ALL of your paying customers are thieves and forcing them to jump through flawed WPA/WGA/WGAN/SPP hoops to prove their innocence!

And the point which you missed, saying that they were doing the "Right Thing" is that nothing has changed with WGA/WPA/WGAN, and that they've been going after pirates for years, the only thing that makes this news is that they are going after a LARGE number all at the same time.

Read it again - nothing is new and nothing has changed.


What is it about the phrase "the first time" that you don't comprehend? They have NOT been going after pirates for "years". Pre XP OSes were pirated BECAUSE MS WANTED THEM PIRATED in order to saturate and control the market. I know MS is your hero but, sorry, that's the truth. What's more WPA/WGA/WGAN/SPP marks the end of Microsoft's golden years and the beginning of them being as relevant as Amiga.

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