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Microsoft Sued Over WGA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the phoning-home dept.

Hope Thelps writes "The Seattle PI is reporting on a lawsuit being brought against Microsoft in response to their WGA spyware. Groklaw is also covering the story. Although there are a lot of similarities to Sony's rootkit, the actual harm done is less concrete. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out."

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  1. Hmm... by Cytlid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I just only wish there was an alternative..." typed the man in his slashdot repsonse on his Linux workstation.

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    FLR
  2. Turn & drop trowsers please by HotBlackDessiato · · Score: 5, Funny

    How can an official component of Windows be spyware? It's their operating system, they allready own you if you use it. Pull down your pants and get it over with allready.

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    "If you don't have eyes you shouldn't have wings" -- Carl Pilkington
  3. How do Microsoft Programmers sleep at night? by jonr · · Score: 4, Funny

    A: On a pile of money.

  4. jokes? I love jokes by MrSquirrel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, at least the Sony rootkit comes with music!... this thing comes with worse: Windows!

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    A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
  5. Re:Interesting... by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Me too. I love when lawyers teach people a lesson by getting rich.

  6. NOT SPYWARE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look everybody wga is NOT SPYWARE. I ran Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware Beta on WGA and it came up CLEAN. So drop it okay?

  7. In other news Jack Kevorkian sues dev of "killall" by Netw0rkAssh0liates · · Score: 5, Funny
    Frankly I don't care who's suing them. I hope that many people jump on the bandwagon to sue them. I would like to see them fight it out to the end, instead of taking a settlement. I want a verdict against Microsoft. Something that stops them or other companies from doing things like this in the future. However, most people are only after the money, and hence will just take a settlement. Nobody is in it because they think MS is a bunch of assholes and should pay.


    In other news, Jack Kevorkian sued the developers of the POSIX-compliant 'NUX commandline program "killall", citing that the application didn't really kill "all" the programs on the computer but instead should be renamed to "killnothingbut". This intellectual Advantage(TM) of Kevorkian stemmed from his introduction of the oft'quoted uber-leet commandline tool "kevork" which injects null pointers into the code and data segments of all programs that are non-responsive to the "TERM" and "KILL" flags. Kevorkian was unable for comment on whether this is a closed or open-source application, though it was rumoured by his assistant that it is a simple library replacement with a namely-fassioned symlink to killall that the library determines based at runtime with argv.

    Sincerily,
    John "kill'em'all" Dahmer
  8. Won't work! by one_red_eye · · Score: 4, Funny

    The thing is my hijacked copy of Windows XP won't even download updates because it has an 'invalid key', so how are they going to deliver the WGA?