I don't mind what Microsoft is doing with the activation process because I'm getting sick and tired of all the piracy that has been going around recently. Like I said long ago, piracy has become so problematic that even the economy as well as the FS community is negatively affected by it.
Apple is also known for having tight restrictions with their iTunes service. Did you know that if you purchase music or videos from the iTunes music store, you can only play those on a limited number number [five at the most] of computer that have iTunes installed? For example:
Let's say you have 5 computers in the house and you have authorized all of them to run your favorite Stargate episodes through iTunes. Since 5 is the limit per account, you've reached you limit. And if you clean out one of the 5 computers without deauthorizing it first, then the same computer won't run it because the iTunes server doesn't compensate for systme-wide clean outs and you've also reached your limit already. Not only that, the computers that authorized need to have iTunes installed as the episodes you have were downloaded through the iTunes music store.
So you see, Microsoft is not alone in the matter. Piracy is a serious thing. It's so serious, that if the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] catches you with pirated media then you'll face a very heavy lawsuit big enough to put you into deep finacial debt.
So, if you don't like the direction that Microsoft is taking with this, then put up with it as other companies are doing the same thing as well to combat piracy. In which case, you should blame the pirates for causing your convenience to deteriorate.
This is really bogus. I'd rather they'd have kept it where you need a startup disk, and put some sort of anti-copy feature on the disk.
Dude, there will always be a professional hacker that will be able to crack the anti-copy feature. Therefore, an anti-copy feature is fruitless.
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