Fighting Microsoft's piracy check
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| Counterfeiters aren't Microsoft's only opponents in its effort to
| combat piracy: Some of its customers are against it, too.
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| Most of their criticism is directed at the way Microsoft's antipiracy
| technology, Windows Genuine Advantage, interacts with a PC. Recently,
| the software maker was lambasted over its WGA Notifications tool, which
| it pushes out as a "high priority" update alongside security fixes. There
| have also been complaints about the tool collecting information from PCs
| and causing system troubles.
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| [...]
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| The hacks and workarounds are a sign of the indignation among some
| Microsoft users, including some CNET News.com readers.
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| [...]
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| In response to the criticism, Microsoft maintains that there is a real
| benefit in validating a copy of Windows.
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