Is it true..?

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That Windows Vista will delete any pirated materials on your computer? do
they (windows) have the right to do this?
If this is true.. this could affect wether i stay with window at all if
there going to start unjustifiably deleting users files.

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That Windows Vista will delete any pirated materials on your computer? do
they (windows) have the right to do this?
If this is true.. this could affect wether i stay with window at all if
there going to start unjustifiably deleting users files.

Yah Linux Fedora 6!
Ely - Network System Administrator

Do you have the right to have pirated materials?
 
Hyperdude122 said:
That Windows Vista will delete any pirated materials on your computer? do
they (windows) have the right to do this?
If this is true.. this could affect wether i stay with window at all if
there going to start unjustifiably deleting users files.
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Interesting, the same rumor was spreading around when Windows XP came out.
No, it is not true.
 
Hyperdude122 said:
That Windows Vista will delete any pirated materials on your computer? do
they (windows) have the right to do this?
If this is true.. this could affect wether i stay with window at all if
there going to start unjustifiably deleting users files.
Click to expand...

No. This is your typical FUD spread by people trying to get their 2% market
share up to 3%.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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No, they don't have the right, and no it isn't true. They do require
that your Vista install is legal and legit (although, as always, there
are crackers out there that have workarounds. But, that isn't recommended.).

Dustin Harper
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http://www.vistarip.com
 
Hyperdude122 said:
That Windows Vista will delete any pirated materials on your computer? do
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If WinV doesn't like *anything* about your computer, it will reduced it to a
puddle of slag in a heartbeat (or two).
 
Not only that! You will also find yourself on T.V staring in the sexual
predator series.

And... Bill Gates will tell your girlfriend about all the porn on your
computer.

Man, Vista really sucks!

-Frank
 
That Windows Vista will delete any pirated materials on your computer? do
they (windows) have the right to do this?
If this is true.. this could affect wether i stay with window at all if
there going to start unjustifiably deleting users files.
Click to expand...

Maybe resolve this quandary by not having pirated materials (whatever that
refers to)? To answer your question, no it's not true.
 
I have no idea where you got that info. Why would MS delete software
(unless of course it is theirs)?
 
Actually, Microsoft does have the right legally in the United States. In
fact, so does the recording industry. If the recording industry simply
"suspects" that you have illegally downloaded music on your PC, they have
the right to hack your defenses, even in violation of the DCMA, and to
disable or remove any suspected illegal content. And just like the
recording industry, Microsoft is a copyright owner.

It's very scary. We'll just have to see if they ever exercise that right
and what the socio-political outcome of that will be. Unfortunately, there
probably won't be serious repercussions. We'll all just roll over and take
it.

Dale
 
Just various things I have gleaned from reports online and on the news. I'm
not an attorney or a judge. :)

From Epic.org:

DRM systems may also be designed to actually harm a user's system. One
product in particular, InTether Point-to-Point, can impose "penalties" for
"illegal" uses of files. The program can force a reboot of the user's
computer or destroy the file that the user was attempting to access. A
Celine Dion album released in 2002 by EPIC and Sony records can crash a
user's computer if the disc is inserted in a CD-ROM drive.

From wired.com:

"We might try and block somebody," Glazier said. "If we know someone is
operating a server, a pirated music facility, we could try to take measures
to try and prevent them from uploading or transmitting pirated documents."

The RIAA believes that this kind of technological "self-help" against online
pirates, if done carefully, is legal under current federal law.


Dale
 
Those articles are a long way from what you stated in the original message.

The recording industry tried to get a law passed that would have given them
the right to "hack" into any computer, but it was resoundingly defeated.
 
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