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Microsoft Anti-Piracy Program Has Hard-Edged EULA | 146 comments (146 topical) | Post A Comment
Well, what's the supposed benfit of this?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#5)
by Anonymous User on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 12:19:43 PM PDT

I guess one test would be installing it on a genuine windows, and on one or more pirated versions (obtaining this is of course a problematic issue) and see if WGA does it's job correctly or not. One could also do minor eula violations like installing something other than the pre-loaded version and see if it detects that. Does it impact the performance of de-facto standard benchmarks (not at all familiar with these, but 3dmark, pcmark etc?)
But I think the important thing with this and a lot of other clauses is "selective enforcement", just another nice to have tool to bludgeon disobedient customers.

Besides, would anyone really expend the resources of fighting a full-scale microsoft funded lawyer fishing expedition lasting possibly for years?

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