Yo Ho Yo Ho A Pirate's Life for Chinese.....Arrgh!

[Robor]

Originally posted by: piasabird
This is just a pattern of the Chinese not enforcing their own laws as long as someone is making money. This is why China is the most polluted nation on earth. They just turn away and ignore the polluters. They do the same thing for software pirates. That is why when they had melamean (Spell) chemicals in their milk that they did not do anything till people started dying. People in China only love money. Communism destroys and squashes all belief in God and all respect for their fellow comrades and the people in the rest of the world. They only love money.

Assuming you're an American, that's a pretty bold statement. I don't mean the 'god' part - which has no place in this thread. I'm referring to we as Americans by ratio being the biggest consumers/polluters.

Edit... ** I don't mean to divert the thread. Just making a point.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: Robor

Well aware of the mood expressed by such postings, the government has also criticised Microsoft. "Violating consumers' rights just to protect your own rights is inappropriate," warns Liu Binjie, Commissioner of the National Copyright Administration. He adds that in future he wants the company to discuss anti-piracy measures with the government before they are launched.

Are you F'ing kidding me? I have legal copies of Windows where installed and as a tech I *hate* WGA as much as the next person. That said, how the hell is Microsoft 'violating consumers rights' by fighting known pirates?

Apparently, it's a consumer's right to be able to pirate operating systems.

But they're not consumers.

Yep. Like stealing a cell phone and hacking it to get cell service then getting pissed when the provider cuts off the phone. WTF?!?!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Wow...I thought America was that nation of self entitled assholes but China just suck our fucking battleship.

that made me LOL :laugh:

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
A nice revenge would be a secret back door for the NSA in all of those pirated copies. Then, when a major security breach occurs against the US originating from there, they can launch a giant DOS attack using their own computers against them.

Nah, just block all the WoW ports.

Trust me, they'd be lining up to get their legit licenses.

Edit - It's not like this is out of the ordinary, the US and/or the West in general subsidize all kinds of things for the developing world.

Like ohhh, pharmaceuticals.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
A nice revenge would be a secret back door for the NSA in all of those pirated copies. Then, when a major security breach occurs against the US originating from there, they can launch a giant DOS attack using their own computers against them.

Nah, just block all the WoW ports.

Trust me, they'd be lining up to get their legit licenses.

Edit - It's not like this is out of the ordinary, the US and/or the West in general subsidize all kinds of things for the developing world.

Like ohhh, pharmaceuticals.

We already do that for Canada. Oh... i see you said subsidize for the developing world.

 

[gorobei]

Originally posted by: between
the article doesn't seem to say how m$ is backing down, have they lowered the price, or turned off the windows advantage copy protection thing?

they lowered the price of vista versions a couple of months ago, roughly to the same as US prices (guess they were gouging china to make up for the piracy)

right now the main issue is they have millions of china users who get the black screen of death/authenticity. the users are complaining mostly about being forced to get legitimate upgrades i guess.

the backdown is probably the fact that m$ is holding off on deactivating all the pirated installs until they can get most of the china users on some sort of legit version. (this is about getting their data off before the install is shut down if they dont go legit effectively.)


http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/161120...soft-piracy-fight.html

In a dramatic illustration of the scope of the problem, several million Chinese are using a Windows license key held by the University of Pennsylvania, which is freely available on the web.

People familiar with the company's dialogue with the government say that it needs to apply more diligence to its intellectual property rights strategy in China. They say that the next planned big anti-piracy step, the shutting down of illegitimately-used software license keys such as that held by the University of Pennsylvania, will not go ahead until the current crisis in China is resolved.

 

[Pepsei]

fuck them, hope they put that vista on their first aircraft carrier and watch it sink.