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>
> You have to recognize, though, that when he says "our customers", he
> means victims of counterfeiting - implicitly, deliberate warez-style
> pirates are not customers.
>
>
>>Why do computer users need to be protected against hacks that
>>deactivate Microsoft's product activation? Deactivating WPA is a
>>good thing. It means less potential for grief. No, the only ones
>>Microsoft is protecting here are themselves.
>>
>>All it means to me is that I can never use Microsoft's automatic
>>download, or anything that requires the running of the "Genuine
>>Advantage" or whatever else they are calling their piracy-sniffing
>>tools these days. I have a completely legitimate copy of Windows
>>7, yet these tools are cut off to me, because I don't want to risk
>>the screw ups of WPA and associated "security" crap.
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>
> Well, I will agree to the extent that in an ideal world, this wouldn't
> be necessary. But it's not fair to Microsoft, and more importantly to
> victims of counterfeit software, to completely reject it on principle.
> There's a principle on both sides.
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