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Can Hollywood Learn From Intuit?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'll-give-you-three-guesses dept.

Ironica writes "Readers will recall the furor over Intuit's activation scheme for TurboTax 2002, which prompted a lawsuit and subsequently was removed from TT2002 and all future products. Here's an interesting editorial on CNNMoney suggesting that other DRM proponents could take a page out of Intuit's book ... if they have the sense."

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  1. What Every Linux Luser Wants For Christmas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, boy...

  2. Re:I use Activation schemes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't see a problem with it. It prevents piracy and also leads to many *schools* to purchase more then 1 copy from me, as I can easily proove from my logs. I don't write to people's boot sectors or anything though - just some simple DSA PKI.

    Go back to those schools and learn how to either use a spellchecker, or properly spell "prove".

  3. Re:Boycott Intuit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    TurboTax haggled me to use Intuit's electronic filing service

    I think you think haggled means something other than what it actually does.