C-Net/ Vista WGA

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Jeff

Well;
Not to anyone's suprise, but c/net just had an article about validation
in Vista.
Seems Vista will phone home periodically;to check if you're legit. Uhoh,
see a pattern/problem here? LOL
Not that I find anti-piracy initiatives bad; or that I am in any way
opposed to MSFT's legitimate attempt to stop piracy,
but again; the methodology is what concerns me. WGA in itself;presents no
problems;to me functionally.
It will only check if I initiate it(i.e. downloading a WGA application).
What I do take offense too;is periodically checking to see if I am a
criminal.
Check once;at activation;then LEAVE ME ALONE. If I choose to apply a WGA
program;then o.k.; check again.
As the article was unclear to the extent of "phoning home"; I'm interested
to see the eventual outcome of this.
here's the link to the c/net article :
http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6122462.html?part=rss&tag=6122462&subj=news
Any;and all comments;welcome.

Jeff
P.S. Yes; I agreed to the EULA(and did read it-lol;which;btw was not an
option with kb905474 in XP)
 
I read an article this morning that basically said MS was going to be
heavily enforcing anti piracy by means of crippling the computer the pirated
OS is on.Things discussed included 1 hour of Internet use daily for 14 days
then no Internet,Crippling of almost all software with the ability to just
start the system after a certain time frame and if still pirated copy system
will shut down.
I am assuming that activation will follow a similar route....1 hr per day
for 14 days...no activation...no Internet
peter
 
Jeff said:
Check once;at activation;then LEAVE ME ALONE. If I choose to apply
a WGA program;then o.k.; check again.
As the article was unclear to the extent of "phoning home"; I'm
interested to see the eventual outcome of this.
here's the link to the c/net article :
http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6122462.html?part=rss&tag=6122462&subj=news
Any;and all comments;welcome.
Click to expand...

There's been miles of comment already all over the place about WGA, there
will be miles more before the race is run to the end, but I'm sticking to
something I said quite a while ago:

If you've got no pressing need to continue to buy Windows, buy a Mac.

Apple 'trust' you to do the right thing with your OS licence. They make
cheap 'family pack' licences available if you have several Macs you want to
upgrade when a new OS comes out. They actually act like they're vaguely
grateful for your custom, instead of making you assume the position and
submit to a full cavity search every time you reboot.
 
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