Microsoft goes pirate hunting
MIGHTYSOFT filed 52 lawsuits in 22 countries against software sales outfits who it reckons have sold counterfeit its software online.
Volish investigations have, it claims, unearthed a Chinese syndicate flogging bent Windowses willy-nilly.
"The criminal syndicate broken up this past summer by Chinese law enforcement and the FBI was linked to a significant amount of illegitimate Internet activity," proclaimed David Finn, an anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting vole.
Some 15 of the 52 lawsuits were related to the syndicate, which is reckoned to be the biggest yet threatened with the Law According to the Vole.
"We have a responsibility to help combat cyber-pirates who operate without borders and attempt to deceive unsuspecting software consumers around the world, " affirmed Finn the Vole. ยต
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So they remove the killswitch from the Windows Genuine Advantage system only to turn around a file lawsuits all over the planet against businesses they may or may not have any proof against for selling bogus copies of windows. I guess Microsoft finally realised that they can't make any money sueing the little guy and decided that if anyone is gonna be ripping off consumers its gonna be them personally with Vista.
Because they Arrrrrrrr.

Aparantly in some US states this is now a viable prosecution case, as shown by the RIAA and the like...

I found the part about "Cyber-Pirates operating without borders" particularily amusing and am left wondering when Microsoft will be releasing either a game or gimicky operating system based around the concept.
I don't care that the convicted monopolist is seeking retribution for pirates hawking their wares. They've made hundreds of billions of dollars (not that the amount matters). I don't concern myself with their self help methods nor with their use of the court system to enact revenge.

Stop with all things Microsoft. There are so many other interesting things happening in the industry that don't involve them. Let's move on.

In any given year can you guess how many lawsuits are filed against Microsoft for their thieving ways?
pirate is law of nature to balance the rest of the world. if you to easy to get soooo much money (software, music, movie etc) then the mother nature get down to squezze your pocket in order to balance.... remember easy get is easy lost... money include. does anyone wonder, why people never PIRATE microprocessor??? because its sooo expensive to built :)

so wake up M$, lower yor price...
I don't know where your getting that from. Microsoft is probably the most forgiving about piracy even though they are the most pirated. They only really go after those commercial pirates who actually make money off their pirated software. And power to them for doing that, cause they are the ones that cause the damage that the RIAA/MPAA claim.

I mean they let you get critical security updates even if they KNOW you're using a pirated version of windows. The RIAA would just track your IP and sue you for 6000x the cost of the product.
"They only really go after those commercial pirates"

Sorry, but Genuine Advantage is something that goes after everyone BUT a pirate. And it gets itself wrong way too often for me to trust it. It'll still kill your license, though.

Personally, I would much prefer that Microsoft chuck out its DRM and WGA and leave users alone completely, but file miles of lawsuits against real, actual, profiteering mass-copying pirates.