July 5, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Pardon me, but can anyone tell me what the actual "advantage" is to having a licensed copy of Windows? Seems to me, the only advantage over a pirated copy is that this WGA-verifying software won't bug you. Pretty much, a copy of Windows works the same whether it's Genuine or not.
MS's reasons for doing this are obvious, but I think there's better solutions to the problem.
July 10, 2006 at 7:38 am
I've got 3 words.... "Galactic Civilizations two"
http://forums.galciv2.com/index.aspx?forumid=161&aid=106741&c=1
A couple companies are starting to think like this. take the focus off preventing piracy, and put the focus on increasing sales.
How do I feel about piracy? I don't particularly like it, but, I also don't want to be treated like a criminal because someone else does it.
How do I feel about the big anti-piracy stuff? well, I refuse to buy music or movies. I don't listen to anything outside of NPR. I rent a lot of movies, but, with a big rental company like netflix, the studios are probably not having such a huge turn-around on their movies. I rarely go to the movies.
Plain and simple, I do everything I can to avoid doing business with a company that treats me like a criminal for using their product. Windows, I'm stuck with... a lot of the other MS products however, I'm not stuck with, and I do my best to avoid. I use SQL server a lot at work, but I just won't use it for a personal project because of stuff like WGA...
companies have a right to protect themselves... that's what serial numbers, and disk checks are for. so long as those concepts don't phone home, or install extra/hidden software on my computer, I'm OK with them. But, I also think I should be able to make a useable backup copy of my software. I prefer to keep my origionals safely stored away, and only take them out if a copy goes bad. I hate needing to get out the origional, and expose it to scratch risks...
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Anyway, if you game at all, buy a copy of galactic civilizations II... let's reward the companies that treat their users with respect.
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