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by Anonymous User on Wed Jun 23, 2004 at 09:11:39 AM PDT

I still have no answer from a major software vendor to whether I have to buy new software when my uninsured machine is stolen and how many headaches do I have to go through to reinstall on a new machine when I buy one. How intrusive it has become to have the clamps put on how or what you upgrade from your hardware so as not to upset the activation sequence. Piracy control is the domain of governments and not that of software vendors, whereby they can effectively intimidate and irritate users with threatening and intrusive methods. So what if my machine is stolen, do I spend another thousand pounds on another program, do I go back to OS9 to use my user friendly and actually perfectly adecuate software? If I want a new machine I do not feel obliged to justify such a simple consumer act to a software producer who will probably not give a damn if that precious item gives me grief for instance. I have nothing left for the new activation system, I am an honest user and I think that these companies should lobby governments for more agressive piracy control.

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