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Ikarasu
join:2004-01-09
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Re: Problem was fixed & cries for WGA to be eliminated are .... Thinking like this, is kinda idiotic.
How long did it take crackers to get rid of WGA? Not even a week. The only people who suffered because of this outage, are the legit users. The ones who downloaded windows, completely DRM free, didnt suffer at all.
Of course, MS shouldn't eliminate all software protection. But ones such as this, that ONLY hurt their legit users, should be gone.
Go look up whats happening with Oblivion. They put in so much protection, that they have thousands of legit users unable to play, and in 24 hours, it was available online, without rootkits, without instalation limits - Again, the only people to suffer? those who spent the money for the product.
People who pay $300 for windows, and has problems like this, when theres no reason at all too, kind of have a right to complain. Why pay $300 for crippled software, when I can spend 20 mins downloading a fully functional version, that wont break? | |
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How long did it take crackers to get rid of WGA? Not even a week. The only people who suffered because of this outage, are the legit users.
That's pretty much true of all copy protection schemes. The funny part about it is I think the Microsoft upon which their huge empire was built used to understand that. There wasn't any protection to speak of in Windows or Office prior to XP.
Now that there alternatives to Windows are more and more viable (Apple is gaining a lot of ground, and Linux continues to mature), they wait until NOW to put the screws down to pirates? To jack the price up really high on a full featured OS (Ultimate, the only one that suits my needs having both Remote Desktop and Media Center, where the old Media Center was just fine)?
It has never been popular to admit to being a fan of Microsoft, but I used to be one. But Microsoft's think tanks seem to on the wrong warpath lately and its sad to see. | |
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Wrong game. You're thinking Bioshock.
Oblivion's only copy protection was a CD check, which is very easily bypassed for any reason at all. | |
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