New Windows 7 anti-piracy system

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Running a pirated copy of Windows 7? Not for long, you're not.

A new update to Windows 7's activation and validation system will be pushed out to users next week, and it dramatically ramps up efforts to detect and disable illegal copies of Windows 7, or installations which are using exploits to bypass its activation routines. The update is said to detect more than 70 activation bypass exploits, and more will surely be added over time.

What's new to this kind of software is that it will now "phone home" to Microsoft and re-check your system against Microsoft's library of phony serial numbers and cracks once every 90 days. So even if your computer is considered "clean" in March, come June it may very well have a change of heart and decide you're "dirty," abruptly locking down the PC with a "This computer is not running genuine Windows" message.

It's this lattermost behavior that has some privacy advocates up in arms: The idea that Microsoft will not just do a one-time checkup on the authenticity of your system but will keep checking, over and over, essentially forever.

And is this really necessary? If a serial number is legitimate today, how can it become counterfeit later? And even if it does (through whatever process), is that really your fault? Obviously there are some users out there today using phony serial numbers that haven't been detected by Microsoft yet... but the odds of users with legitimate serial numbers getting incorrectly fingered as criminals are probably much higher.

Perhaps sensing the backlash, Microsoft is taking the odd step of making this update optional. While it will be marked as "Important," it can actually be uninstalled by the user (but not if you try to do so after your system is tagged as fraudulent).

Meanwhile, as Ars Technica posits in a footnote, the three-year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over these anti-piracy updates has finally been dismissed, giving Microsoft the go-ahead to heep policing its applications and remotely shutting down computers it determines are in violation of its terms of service. Don't like this new update? Tough. Better get used to it... and probably worse down the line.

Sursa: New Windows 7 anti-piracy system phones home every 90 days : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

[daatdraqq]

E frectie la picioru de lemn ce face Bill

Mint cand zic ca vor lansa update-urile ,deja sunt lansate .

Am patit-o eu acum 3 zile si l-am reactivat decat dupa ce am sters WAT(Windows Activation Technologies).

Cine nu stie cum se face ,aveti aici ce va trebuie :http://www.fileshare.ro/3130881319.84

Daca vreti sa nu o patiti nu instalati :KB971033