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Antipiracy Feature Shuts Out Customers
News Some of the 1.2 million customers that have installed software maker Symantec's latest Norton PC security package have been unable to use the software because of new antipiracy technology, the company confirmed on Thursday.
[October 31, 2003, 7:25]
Antipiracy Battle Moves To Hardware
News Security locks are foolproof only when all brands of stereos, computers and MP3 players use the same antipiracy technology, leaving consumers little choice but to accept it. Powerhouses such as Intel and IBM are taking early steps toward building...
[March 23, 2001, 14:07]
Antipiracy Battle Moves To Hardware Pt II
News InterTrust also creates its own chip, dubbed the RightsChip, which can be used to lay the foundation of antipiracy technology deep into digital music devices or even desktop computers. Many analysts expect this chaos to continue well into the...
[March 23, 2001, 14:09]
Microsoft Antipiracy Tool 'acts Like Spyware'
News Microsoft has vowed to better disclose the actions of its antipiracy tool once it is installed on Windows PCs. Microsoft acknowledged that it has not been forthcoming enough about the antipiracy tool's behavior, but countered that its tool is not...
[June 8, 2006, 9:10]
Microsoft Pushes Antipiracy Tool To Desktop
News The efforts are part of Microsoft's antipiracy fight. The WGA expansion is a precursor to the antipiracy features Microsoft is building into Windows Vista, the update to the operating system expected in January 2007.
[April 25, 2006, 11:55]
New 'Whistler' Build Adds Antipiracy Lock
News New in this build are many user-interface tweaks, as well as the incorporation of new antipiracy code. The most potentially controversial addition to Whistler 2410, however, is antipiracy code that Microsoft is calling "Microsoft Product Activation...
[January 9, 2001, 8:59]
Microsoft Launches Massive Antipiracy Campaign
News A Web search engine that trolls the Internet 24 hours a day for pirated software is helping Microsoft sue Web sites for distributing illegal copies of Windows 2000, according to the Wall Street Journal.
[August 3, 2000, 10:44]
Microsoft Antipiracy Tool 'acts Like Spyware'
Talkback As long as Microsoft doesn't activate the server-side termination signal for WGA it has something to explain: why make zillion of computers phone home daily just to check if a validation tool should be deactivated or not?
[June 12, 2006, 20:02]
Microsoft Pushes Antipiracy Tool To Desktop
Talkback I want to thank Bill Gates and his army of flying monkeys for pushing the "Windows Genuine Advantage" patch out to my Windows XP Laptop yesterday. Now it won't run at all, stopping with a blue screen in the log-on process.
[May 7, 2006, 4:21]
Microsoft Pushes Antipiracy Tool To Desktop
Talkback Like Bill Gates is not rich enough.
[May 9, 2006, 9:58]
Microsoft Pushes Antipiracy Tool To Desktop
Talkback I think Microsoft have got a real cheek.I bought my PC second hand with Windows already in place and have no intention of paying £90 to Microsoft for a problem that was not of my making. After the nasty little tool installed itself on my PC I had...
[May 13, 2006, 23:55]
Microsoft Pushes Antipiracy Tool To Desktop
Talkback I can see where malicious hackers could find useful ways of exploiting this 'desktop warning' by creating a piece of malware that replaces it for one that impersonates legitimate warnings and does various other things instead of just warning, like...
[April 25, 2006, 14:40]
Microsoft Pushes Antipiracy Tool To Desktop
Talkback I imagine Ballmer and Gates will be gleefully data mining the database they will build with this tool for the thieves that owe them money. Once they turn over the list to the Business Software Alliance these despicable EULA violators will be...
[April 26, 2006, 0:06]
Antipiracy Foes Reach Agreement
News Music and technology industry lobbyists signed a rhetorical peace accord at an event in Washington DC on Tuesday afternoon and pledged to work more closely to thwart Internet piracy in the future. The press conference was designed to highlight a...
[January 15, 2003, 11:21]
Microsoft Brings Copy Protection To Consumer Apps
News Microsoft counts on antipiracy technique Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by product activation, in what could be a first step toward expanding use of the antipiracy technology.
[January 2, 2003, 15:19]
Court Blocks DVD-cracking Suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. Monday's case is one of a handful filed by the...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Sony's Rootkit Woes Aren't Over
News Sony BMG is making amends in California and Texas for secretly loading antipiracy software onto customers' computers. I think that there were a lot of record labels who got carried away with the idea of DRM," said Cindy Cohn, legal director for the...
[December 21, 2006, 8:20]
Vista PCs To Lock Out Rogue Software
News Windows Vista will have new antipiracy technology that locks people out of their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation. The company is now expanding its push by baking antipiracy features into its new...
[October 6, 2006, 9:40]
Second WGA Lawsuit Faced By Microsoft
News Microsoft has been named in a second lawsuit over its antipiracy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, which plaintiffs allege acts as "spyware" on their systems. They distort our antipiracy program… and the harm piracy brings to Microsoft and...
[July 6, 2006, 9:45]
Microsoft Offers WGA Workaround
News Microsoft released a new version of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications on Tuesday and detailed how to remove the controversial antipiracy software. It said those instructions will also work to uninstall the updated release of the antipiracy...
[June 28, 2006, 11:20]
