Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
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join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| What a terrible idea!
Can you imagine the potential for hackers, viruses, and other malware?
They'd be able to reach out at shut down anyone they pleased with phony piracy complaints.
Someone really needs to think this one through.
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tad2020
join:2007-07-17
Orange, CA
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| Every worse, somebody compromises the disable keys then the hackers could directly disable every system with the compromised software.
I think we'll be seeing more open source adoption if those kind of systems become legal and mainstream. For the number of times I've seen WGA false positives a year at my office, I'm pretty scared already. |
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | reply to Corydon
And hackers, viruses, and other malware can't do this now because? It's not like the parties that create the viruses and malware are exactly ethical and follow the letter (or even spirit) of the law. |
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Jafo232
You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.
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join:2002-10-17
Boonville, NY
·RoadRunner Cable
| It will never happen, as much as every lawyer in the world wants it to. Can you imagine the liability a company would take on to just blindly disable a PC?
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jester121
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Only half the lawyers are for it -- the other half want to sue the clients of the first half.  |
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