From: "Geo" 

"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
news:44a320bc$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> Good point, but I don't think MS is that crazy yet.  If you are going to
> deactivate someone's XP then you had better be damned sure it's an illegal
> copy. Deactivate a legal copy and to me its worse than a hacker doing it.
>
> Based on what I've read on the WGA talkback I'm surprised no one has sued
MS
> yet.

MS has already deactivated keys prior to WGA, security patches were used at
one point to disable networking or something if the key was on the
blacklist.

I'm sure however they do it with WGA it will be slow and painful.

Let me explain their POV. Everyone on the planet already owns a copy of
Windows (they have sold that many) so the only way to keep the money pump
going is to either get you to buy new with a new machine by tying it to the
hardware or force deactivate and make you purchase new. If they let you
take your legal copy from old machine to new machine, nobody is going to
make any money. So if it appears they don't care about customers, they
don't, they have to not care if they intend to keep raking in the billions.

Of course they don't know the only way to get my money is to create a
version of windows that's worth the costs to me. That means it has to
empower me to do the things I want to do, even if those things are file
sharing, recording and trading TV shows with family and friends over the
internet, networking with linux devices, and editing copy protected DVD's.
They don't know this because they stopped talking to actual users about 7
years ago.

Geo.

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