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Microsoft Gets Even Pickier

amorefelina — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:00:36 +0000

We recently reported that Microsoft Vista has a protection set up that keeps hackers away from the software. Basically, it makes you register, and if you don’t do it within the timeframe given (30 days) you get the boot. Yes, out of your own system, in some cases. Locked out with only an hour available at a time to get back in and try to register the program.

Microsoft Takes Steps to Lock Pirates OUT
Not only do I find this extreme but they’ve added to it. Vista is now limited to only one change of system. If you have Vista on a system and want to change the license to another system or maybe your laptop, they say fine, but that system is the only change you can make. Never again can you change the system choice.

Vista is limited to ONE license change and I’m not sure if any excuses will get you past the Microsoft team.

Also, in the license, Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in virtual machines. “You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system,” it reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business can be installed within a VM.

It also states that when Vista periodically goes to recheck and validate the software, and if any changes are found, it will severely limit the use of the software functionality if not properly licensed.

I think that’s way too much information transferring between systems. Even those that legally obtain Vista will have to jump through hoops to keep it on their systems. How unfair is that?

Arab Hackers Shut Down Israeli Web Sites

soulxtc — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:59:28 +0000

Pro-Palestinian hackers shut down hundreds of Israeli Web sites as Israeli troops invaded southern Gaza after the abduction of an Israeli soldier, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.

The Jerusalem Post said about 700 Web sites were shut down early Wednesday morning in the campaign.

Their home pages were replaced by the message, “Hacked by Team-Evil Arab hackers u KILL palestin people we KILL Israeli servers.”

By early Friday, all the Web sites mentioned in the report were back in service. The report could not be independently confirmed.

Hollywood and the hackers

soulxtc — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:26:10 +0000

Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman locks horns with Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Perry Barlow over big media’s war with the internet.

The biggest pirate movie site on the Internet was raided by police a few days ago. Within 48 hours it was up and running in a different country. It’s just another week on the barricades of the information revolution.

Over and again we at geek central find ourselves reading about the latest skirmish between the copyright cops and the darknet without ever hearing that there might be a war going on.

The hackers want to break Hollywood on the wheel of their collective ingenuity and show the suits who is in charge.

Big media wants to make money from the internet like it does with every other outlet, or at the very least not have piracy forever draining away their profits. And they have been hammering away at each other for years now.