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Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool is Shiet

I run a valid copy of Windows and I resent the fact that Microsoft feels the need to install software on my machine to "check up" on me. When I first saw the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool in Windows Update, it was easy enough to disable it by unchecking it in the critical updates. The fact that this is listed as a critical update is total BS. It is not critical for me to have this software for my machine to run.

Now, Microsoft has decided to force the installation of the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool when you run Windows Update. It seems that hackers have found a way around this in the first 24 hours. Links to follow. This is the sort of shit that really scares/bothers me. With all the different versions of DRM and monitoring and checks and phoning home, this sort of thing is only going to get worse and more invasive. Do whatever you can to get around this.

Do you know why they are doing this? It's because they were tracking the number of people that disabled the update in the old version and found out that everyone was disabling it. Way to go Microsoft, let's add features that our customers DO NOT WANT!

Help to remove this shit here
Published Friday, June 09, 2006 12:39 AM by IHateDRMAdmin

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shouting loudly » Blog Archive » MS pushes beta anti-piracy program on ALL users said:

June 15, 2006 11:23 AM
 

I Hate DRM Blog said:

I am saying NO to Windows Genuine Advantage  or WGA.  For those of you who don't know what WGA is, you...
August 2, 2006 3:35 PM
 

V Revolution said:

DRM  Actually stands for Digital Rectal Manipulation!  

Both Apple's Steven Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates believe they're qualified to screw people justified by the wealth we give them alone! Steve Balmer and about every member of the RIAA think they're actually Proctologist and the scary part is they really don't know shit about their real jobs. None of them! They only know how to spend it up!

Take Steve "Monkey Man" Balmer of Microsoft for instance.  Is he for real with all that making an ass out of himself pacing the stage like a monkey talking about he's "going to fucking kill Google" (he said this publicly)? How can someone that ignorant and that imbecilic, have ever gotten where he has in a real job, where he actually had to work?  

It's amazing to realize that this moron is one of the top officials of a major corporation. Plus remember he probably firmly believes in the "One Square of Toilet Paper Rule" and thinks that's adequite protection in the bathroom (one square, one hole w/his finger through it). To think that he uses (holds the rights) to this abundant knowledge and uses it in this assinine attempt (DRM) in protecting his Software (which he didn't and couldn't even write)! And he means to protect even more than actually putting money to making a better product. DRM is the Tool these jerks use to the full extent of their laws (and their finger first up their ass wiping, then ours) through DRM (Digital Rectal Manipulation)!

I know it's a dirty job exposing these criminals for what they are, but some of us victims, of these RIAA and DMCA probings, need to speak up and let others know that we are, ourselves the greatest victims! We lose in three ways. Paying for "Poor Products", "Our Money spent to Buy It" and our money spent to protect it supposedly from ourselves! We actually pay these people to supposedly protect us from the criminals they assume us to be. We pay a greater price and what do we get for that money? Absolutely nothing but a free Rectal Exam, crappy software, songs and movies! Sorry, but I don't find that entertaining at all.

Take a look at these people, any of them and you tell me if Piracy has hurt them! It doesn't even touch them! When they have more of our money than the artists and developers even get to look at, then it's time for change and a Revolution.

We need to stop making these criminals wealthier and not buy their products. We need to shut down the pipeline of this kind of White Collar Corporate Manipulation, that's has 90% of our money going into 5% of the pockets of these criminals! It's time to change the system! It's time that the true creators, artists and people who do 90% of the labor to to get 90% of the wealth!

How? Start buying music direct from the artists. Use the net and it's power to our advantage by supporting unsigned talent and not so famous, but more talented creators. Promote and use Open Source Free Software and make sure we take care of ourselves first! These greedy thugs don't need any more of our money. Haven't they got enough? Yeah we hear all about how philanthropic the Bill Gates of the world are, while they waste more of our money than we'll ever make. Any of us! Somehow, some way the corporate capitalist pigs need to be turned on their ears. Some how changes have to be made in our government and the Corporate Thugs that run it, along with the many criminals of the business world. Best way? Buy direct and donate our money to who we feel deserves it and not continue to overstuff their already too fat pockets!  

September 27, 2006 6:39 AM
 

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