My concern with this is, Microsoft don't really give a good god-damn if you torrent software but they are very concerned with making money. Win10 appears to be aimed more at forcing people to use Microsoft products or those products that suffered through the acceptance process with Microsoft (MS).
For example, I use an image viewer called IrfanView, it's a great piece of software and it craps all over every one of the Windows image viewers and it also has some of the functionality seen in MS Paint. The "company" that developed it aren't a company at all but a single individual who doesn't necessarily have the resources to comply with MS's licencing demands. He offers the programme for free and just asks for donations as a way to pay him for his work.
It's entirely possible that his programme will not be allowed to run on later versions of Windows software. So I would be
forced to use whatever crap MS vomits up or an image viewer made by one of the companies that resigned themselves to conforming to the MS licencing contract.
So I'm not actually getting any choice in what I want to run on my own computer - this is the real concern with MS, their desire to stop piracy isn't nearly as strong as their desire to force customers to use MS products.
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Originally Posted by Cdnwolf
Windows 10 and Torrent sites are at war with each other.
Even before Microsoft's updated Privacy Statement and Services Agreement kicked in on August 1, privacy advocates from the European Digital Rights group warned the new privacy policy was "bad news for privacy." Then Windows 10 default settings proved to be skewed toward spying on users by default. The fact that users are opted in unless they take steps to opt out is so bad for privacy that people who do not normally bother to read Microsoft's Services EULA (end-use license agreement) started doing so.
Some news sites warned that if you use Windows 10 then Microsoft's EULA could allow the company to disable counterfeit games and illegal hardware. The portion (7b) that freaked folks out states:
We may automatically check your version of the software, which is necessary to provide the Services and download software updates or configuration changes, without charging you, to update, enhance and further develop the Services, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games or using unauthorized hardware peripheral devices.
As that blew across the digital wires, Microsoft responded to "Windows 10 built-in piracy kill switch" accusations by claiming its EULA had always given it the power to remotely disable pirated games on PCs. reports torrent sites to
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