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Old 06-17-08   #1 (permalink)
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The holy grail for the software industry's political muscle has long been what in UCITA was called "electronic self help" - the right of software publishers to remotely disable their software on the mere suspicion that it hasn't been paid for. UCITA was ultimately stopped, but last Wednesday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on a bill that nominally is supposed to fight spyware but seems intended to make remote disabling legal.
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Everyone, especially all you guys who are constantly arguing for your online "privacy rights", should read this and be aware of what's going on. And maybe write your Congressman as Ed suggests.
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WOAH...what a load of crap. Well thats Privacy out the door. Just imagine they make a mistake...which they will and they disable a legit application..That would be annoying to say the least.

Yeah Piracy is wrong and can ruin things but IMO this is just a tad too far.
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This is pretty nasty, I can already see someone disabling this feature out of software in the future, maybe you could probably get around it using proxies also ?

This is a crazy step against piracy, and its probably gonna work.
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If windows 7 ended up with that crap and it made a mistake, it could cost
you alot of money (the work you have stored on there)

Too far, too drastic, too much.
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I don't get, it it's not such a big deal, it's already being done by Microsoft to disabling vista through vista "updates"

also open source ftw!
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There's always a free/computer nastiesless open source option anyways.
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There's always a free/computer nastiesless open source option anyways.
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WOAH...what a load of crap. Well thats Privacy out the door. Just imagine they make a mistake...which they will and they disable a legit application..That would be annoying to say the least.

Yeah Piracy is wrong and can ruin things but IMO this is just a tad too far.
It's funny, because the cracks will just include a bypass for this feature now, and the only ones who will be bothered are the people who actually buy it.

I love it!
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i dont mind, alls they are gona get from me is porn, porn, porn, some gaming, more porn, and a lil web surfing!
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these idiots just won't stop
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