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How does something like this get to the front page? Someone provides a cracked copy of Windows and calls it "Ninjitsu OS" and then cries foul when it's taken do
by FactolSarin 6y ago
How does something like this get to the front page? Someone provides a cracked copy of Windows and calls it "Ninjitsu OS" and then cries foul when it's taken down because of course it was.
Is there that much of an anti-Microsoft sentiment that people upvote something like this uncritically?
- chenzhekl 6y agoI bet lots of people who upvoted the post didn't even read the main text.
- user5994461 6y agoI read the text and it says nothing like it. It's all about DMCA takedown for removing telemetry, not a single mention of distributing cracked ISO of windows.
- wvenable 6y agoWhichever legal assistant at BSA (not known for their subtly) wrote that take down was clearly confused but it's plainly clear that was targeted because it they distributed a modified Windows ISO. There have always been tweaking tools for Windows unless we suddenly see a huge crackdown on the hundreds of other products that remove telemetry, etc, I would consider this overblown.
- toyg 6y agoPeople often read only the headline. HN is the new newspaper, but still a newspaper.
- dathinab 6y agoBecause Microsofts claims where not about a illegal distribution of windows and it's a modified copy but not a cracked copy. (Still illegal). This means it was just a easy way to run a modified windows which still required a working license key. Or at least that is the point the article is making.
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