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> So yes, Microsoft has publicly said if they detect a music track that may have been downloaded 'illegally', they will 'package it and all your info and send

by Hawxy 6y ago

> So yes, Microsoft has publicly said if they detect a music track that may have been downloaded 'illegally', they will 'package it and all your info and send it to the feds'. It isn't spyware if you partner with the spies. This was just part of the clickbait fearmongering that spread across various news and conspiracy sites before W10's release. From what I recall, it was to do the content clauses surrounding OneDrive/Office 365 (ie, you can't use OneDrive to host your illegally acquired content) that people somehow assumed would apply to their local documents. Microsoft made the privacy policy wording a lot clearer after that and have said numerous times that they really don't give a damn about your local files. > Microsoft decided to go into the data business with Win10. The advertising subsystem in W10 is actually pretty well isolated to the Windows Store and your Bing web searches, and it doesn't involve your personal information (just keyword/demographic based targeting). Your telemetry data isn't used for adverts. Microsoft Ads as a whole doesn't really make a ton of money for Microsoft so they don't invest a lot into it.

som33 6y ago
Not a conspiracy, UWP games that are cracked stop working on windows update. So they are definitely taking over your machine and monitoring whether you are using "unlicensed" software, that was the whole point of forcing an internet connection, so they could forcibly change files/api's and break any software that had been cracked. You are oblivious, The last 23 years of software since the rise of the internet has been theft on a mass scale which started with PC games in the 90's, there has been a war on software ownership that started with PC games... Ultima online, everquest, guild wars 1 and world of warcraft were all just regular RPG's reprogrammed client server to deny the public ownership and when the public fell for it because it is computer illiterate, that lead us to STEAM in 2004. Steam, uplay, origin, are all bids to lock down the PC as a platform and remove control of software from the end user. We used to get level editors in all AAA games, the last 20 years has seen a giant move towards locked down / stolen games. The entire software industry is celebrating the publics stupidity and update of "software you don't own nor control". The latest version of trackmania is being pushed as a "subscription to software you never get". AKA they never give you the game files. The whole thing is a scam and can only exist in a world of people who are gullible and idiotic. MS and intel and AMD are forcing new versions of CPU's not to work with old versions of windows like windows 7 / 8 via driver starvation. Nvidia's videocards have only drivers for windows 10, no windows 7/8 drivers at all. https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-windows-support-policy-new-processors-skylake https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-window... Read the industry briefs in the push towards total software lockdown: https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_Vision_V2.pdf https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...

by Hawxy 6y ago

som33 6y ago

Not a conspiracy, UWP games that are cracked stop working on windows update. So they are definitely taking over your machine and monitoring whether you are using "unlicensed" software, that was the whole point of forcing an internet connection, so they could forcibly change files/api's and break any software that had been cracked. You are oblivious, The last 23 years of software since the rise of the internet has been theft on a mass scale which started with PC games in the 90's, there has been a war on software ownership that started with PC games... Ultima online, everquest, guild wars 1 and world of warcraft were all just regular RPG's reprogrammed client server to deny the public ownership and when the public fell for it because it is computer illiterate, that lead us to STEAM in 2004. Steam, uplay, origin, are all bids to lock down the PC as a platform and remove control of software from the end user. We used to get level editors in all AAA games, the last 20 years has seen a giant move towards locked down / stolen games. The entire software industry is celebrating the publics stupidity and update of "software you don't own nor control". The latest version of trackmania is being pushed as a "subscription to software you never get". AKA they never give you the game files. The whole thing is a scam and can only exist in a world of people who are gullible and idiotic. MS and intel and AMD are forcing new versions of CPU's not to work with old versions of windows like windows 7 / 8 via driver starvation. Nvidia's videocards have only drivers for windows 10, no windows 7/8 drivers at all. https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-windows-support-policy-new-processors-skylake https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-window... Read the industry briefs in the push towards total software lockdown: https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_Vision_V2.pdf https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...