Microsoft Launches Comical Effort to Fight Piracy

theodp writes "A week before the release of Vista, Microsoft is expanding its fight against software piracy with a new educational effort that includes comics. Making its U.S. debut Monday, the Genuine Fact Files campaign aims to make Microsoft's message more accessible to a broader audience. BTW, Vista's Software Protection Platform (SPP) can put unvalidated copies of the software into a reduced-functionality mode. From the article: 'Microsoft plans to draw attention to it through banner ads on its Web sites and promotional material that it will hand out through partners. By using comics, the company aims to make the message more accessible to a broader audience. They are black and white, in a style similar to newspaper comics.'"

Comments

Re:So uncool

[nick13245]

If they can't afford a $200 operating system, they shouldn't be using it. Maybe if piracy wasn't so easy, more people would be forced to move to another operating system like Linux. Instead, people decide that it's easier to steal. Microsoft owns the software. They can charge however much they want, and they have the right to protect their software from piracy. They're doing a very good job at it, and I applaud their efforts.

The important question

[thesandtiger]

Are they in black and white or color? Newspaper or graphic novel style? Oh, how I wish someone would tell me because neither the summary nor the quote from the article say!

Also, I'd like to know - what style are they in? And are they in color? Im asking because I couldn't tell from the article, and I don't think it said so in the summary.

Modding me "redundant" will just make this funnier to me.

Re:So uncool

[nschubach]

Strictly for research, every copy of Windows I've obtained from sources non-MS have had zero communication to any server outside my network. I run a Linux server between the test machine and the 'net and log every packet of data, IP, time, port, etc. Thank you for spreading false truths.