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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. No harm, no foul by lseltzer · · Score: 1, Troll

    >> the actual harm done is less concrete...

    No shit, there's no harm done at all.

  2. Why do people have such an issue with this? by mr_zorg · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's see: Calling out unattended to an NTP server every day? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to McAfee/Symtantec/ClamAV/whatever to update your anti-virus? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to update your anti-spyware? Fine. Calling out unattended all the time to run your BitTorrent or P2P client? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to check for OSX/Debian/Windows updates? Fine. But calling out unattended to to make sure you're not a pirate? Gasp! Shock! Horror! OK, so maybe you didn't know it was calling home, per se, but you probably should have guessed.