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Microsoft Denies the Windows Kill Switch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pirates-beware dept.

WindozeSux writes "Microsoft has denied that WGA will kill pirated copies of Windows. According to Waggener Edstrom,"Microsoft anti-piracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer." Microsoft also says that WGA is a necessary part of its campaign to catch those illegally using Windows XP which leads one to think what WGA really does then."

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  1. Anyone remember... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...back when most front-page stories attracted 200-300 comments, if not more, and stories with fewer than 100 were rare?

    Where has everyone gone?

    1. Re:Anyone remember... by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Where has everyone gone?

      Well not only is it early Sunday morning in the US, which is always slower, but this story doesn't really lend itself to many useful comments. Beyond a small handful, everything else would just be noise.

      And speaking of noise, meta-moderators ought to be more diligent in marking as unfair mods of "funny" for the same tired old worn out jokes. Also, any discussion that strays into politics or religion, when it's not directly related to the topic, ought to be aggressively modded down. No opinion has ever been changed by any of those threads. They are a pointless waste of time.