Microsoft continues campaign to shut down stupid software pirates

My point if Microsoft is going after piracy they should police their store apps better. It kind of like "Do as we say, not as we do" in my opinion. I question some of free anime & free movie apps it just doesn't feel right to me. One major reason is you can't tell if what you are watching is legal or not in your country. From the web browser in most cases you can tell. One of the anime apps opened up a browser and wanted me to install software, which I didn't. I am not using windows 10 right now, I am having some issues with it. Intel decided not to support some graphic drivers for windows 10 & some Newer Linux distos. They maybe be changing their mind at least for windows 10, I see some beta drivers Intel is working on for Windows 10 anniversary update.

davidhk said:

Campaign all they want.
As long as pirating is profitable, it will continue and can't be stopped.

Here is the Crunch --So Long as it's profitable.

I know I might be near the mark here -- but if "Joe bloggs" say records a film from BBC or wherever and uploads it to a torrent site at ZERO cost where does the site actually make its money from. If you use something like Firefox and disable all scripts you won't get bombarded with ads etc so how do these sites make their money --operating a load of fast servers isn't that cheap and the site operators aren't doing it "out of the goodness of their hearts".

@fjk61011

Iceland used to get UK content from Netflix --so hobbled that even official Govt websites were telling how to bypass blocks and get the US Site !!!!!.

Of course a small country with less population than some Dublin suburbs isn't going to cause Hollywood a whole lot of hassle - but you can understand the principle here.

Not sure if allowed on the Forum but the party got a huge amount of votes in the election so a legit political organisation and they aren't advocating "Breaking Intellectual copyright " rules or intellectual ownership of content but a reform of the more absurd copyright and intellectual management systems.

http://www.piratar.is/policies/?lang=en

Now no problem -- and subscription just the same --so COMPLAIN if services like Netflix aren't operating fairly or you are getting less content.

Cheers
jimbo

Got a mate out in China, teaching, said he'd never actually seen a legit OS,
So whats China's IP

Roy

hawkman said:

Got a mate out in China, teaching, said he'd never actually seen a legit OS,
So whats China's IP

Roy

..............he'd never actually seen a legit OS..................

Exaggerated a bit but it is true that counterfeiting is a norm and prevalent in China.

Barman58,

I agree with you point you are making. Aside from the piracy issue, I see GPS locator as a bad idea. GPS doesn't work everywhere. Not everyone wants give out your location that you live/work at. I thought Microsoft already has something to determine your location using an cable or dial-up internet I.P. address for activation of any windows system (Xp,7,8,10, etc..),


@Layback Bear

I didn't say poor countries should or poor should steal windows. I said Microsoft had some cheaper prices to buy a legit windows operating system in other countries, which makes me a little mad. My point is you don't need to steal, there is plenty of Free operating system (Linux, BsD,etc) & there are places where you can buy cheap legit pre-installed computer with a windows operating system.