From: "Robert Comer" 

> I stopped upgrading my copies of Windows when Microsoft introduced
> Product Deactivation in Windows XP.

I'm too much of an OS geek to not look at and use the new stuff, and truth
be told, I don't have an option, I have to support it so I have to run it.

> I drastically reduced the number of music CDs I buy (from 3 or 4 per
> week to less than one every couple of months) when the record companies
> started to sue their customers.

I've bought 3 CD's in the last 5 years. 

> Never really bought movies in any meaningful quantity.

I've bought a few DVD's of special stuff, but I'm a Netflix man for my
viewing habits.  I've watched over 750 DVD's in the two years I've been a
member, and as long as it plays like it should, it can be as copyprotected
as they want given what I pay per DVD.

--
Bob Comer


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:tbjpn1ts6enuufle0j5i9er55skqtiraf1{at}4ax.com...
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:54:10 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>Because we're all thieves, don't you know.  It's rather in vogue to think
>>that these days, the software does it, the music industry does it, the
>>movie
>>industry does it...
>
> I stopped upgrading my copies of Windows when Microsoft introduced
> Product Deactivation in Windows XP.
>
> I drastically reduced the number of music CDs I buy (from 3 or 4 per
> week to less than one every couple of months) when the record companies
> started to sue their customers.
>
> Never really bought movies in any meaningful quantity.
>
> Now that Microsoft is beginning to think that they own my computer, and
> not I, I doubt if I will ever buy another copy of Windows unless that
> policy changes.
>
> /m

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