I don't mind so much using only legal copies of Windows, even though the software is overpriced and the license conditions are silly. But what I mind is Microsoft snooping around my computer. Because you just know that if the company is allowed to check for counterfeit copies of Windows, it's only a matter of time before it scans my computer for illegal MP3s, legal MP3s, unregistered games, applications sold by its competitors, documents with interesting ideas or subversive content... They'll sell this as a service to content producers, and leverage the info in its own marketing. How do I know they'll do this? Because, if they manage to pull it off, the potential profits are too tempting. Personally, I don't feel like dumping my entire computer into Microsoft's enforcement and marketing database. Call me paranoid, but I don't trust them.
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