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Microsoft to stop illegal downloads as Kodi, The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents and others to be blocke
asterisk14
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This report comes on the basis of a new patent filed by Microsoft that could potentially allow it to block content being shared without the copyright holder’s permission. If true, this action could snip the problem of unauthorized content sharing right at the root.
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MS will now control what programs and files you can have on YOUR OWN computer.
They are getting as bad as Apple.
Whew! Glad they're going to take action against KickAssTorrents. Maybe next they can look at Demonoid.
How can anyone take seriously an article that refers to sites that no longer exist? I guess Delwyn Pinto (hi search engines for the rest of his life!) didn't put much effort into this article...
A patent does not mean anything. Apple patents a lot of crap every day, as does MS.
Until the function actually exists and runs this is pure speculation.
Half of what the article states is also simply illegal - MS can send your executed files hashes to their US office, sure, but the EU countries/the EU will:
A, not like that and sue them as the US is not regarded safe for this data
B, not hand over any user data to a US copyright agency/similar (a Bulgarian IP is worthless, you think the ISP in Sofia will give owner data to the US?)
Sending the entire file is a copyright violation, and if you remember rapidshare times... adding a single zero byte to the file start/end will render any hashing entirely useless.
OSX does not block installs. You only need to disable this in the system settings or each time you install something for entirely unsigned ones.
iOS does it, Windows Mobile and Android do not.
As usual this is pointless, they - again - try to go after the users while the ISPs stay perfectly fine online while being hosted in NL or even US.... you see why that way is just idiotic.
KAT was resurrected by their original staff members, so I guess, they meant that one?
Sounds legit.
Except Apple still lets me watch TV on my MacBook. Just revert to Win7. Who cares if there aren't that many updates: Cortana isn't there to watch you.
North Korea's Red Star OS already does this. Kim Fatty 3 ought to contest it.
a new step to jail windows in a container. when i get a block from windows next day i ll be surfing in linux
I don't like the fact that Windows knows what I'm doing on my computer. It's MY computer not Microsoft's, maybe it's time to go to Linux.
If they do it, I can make thousands of USD getting people in my local area on Debian 9. Anyways this first time the software screws up and blocks a perfectly legal Free Software Competitor, the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation will be up Microsoft's arse.
Dont worry microsoft is facing hard time fixing own vulnerabilities . Blocking others is beyond their reach
But you will still buy Windows and hence pay Microsoft so they can keep working on stuff like this.
Only thing that stops my torrents is the bandwidth limit
So... Microsoft is blocking torrents? No problem... we stop using Microsoft products.
bahahahahahha.... You make my day... looooooooolllllllll....
1984, George Orwell
It might stop your avarage Joe, for a while but the upside to this is we will see more conversions to *NIX. So it's a good move in the end
and Apple's profit will skyrocket, with more and more people installing Hackintosh. It's pretty great: has no forced updates, crrappy Cortana, and a variety of other things