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Sign up with GoogleFacebook members leave after Microsoft buys stake
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Highflyer_GP
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Prolly some Linux fanboys who get their jollies up from being anti-MS everything. As you said Antowan, it's free so I'm not sure what the problem is.
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put 2 and 2 together....
Facebook and WGA ... they both have your IP address, now Microsoft can see exactly who is giving away serial numbers... and they dont even have to hunt for the person. The likely person will be on FB
Dont underestimate the power of information and data-mining.
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I guess it depends on what microsoft wants to do with that wealth of personal information. Considering what facebook employees already do for s & giggles . . .
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Lol! How do you tell who gave away the original serial number?
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You guys are being way too paranoid. A 1.6% stake barely gives them the ability to do anything, it's purely for the money. When you buy a share in a company, that's typically your intention. If they wanted your personal info, then they would have bought a controlling stake in sites such as myspace, which has a much higher user base.
Anyway it all comes down to one thing - don't put information out there about yourself that you don't want strangers knowing.
LOL @ using IP addresses to track serial numbers
/me nominates for most paranoid post of the week.
Anyway it all comes down to one thing - don't put information out there about yourself that you don't want strangers knowing.
LOL @ using IP addresses to track serial numbers
/me nominates for most paranoid post of the week.
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Those people who left honestly don't have a life. They need to get one really soon...
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They stand a better chance now
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MS have bought a 1.6% stake in the company, but also secured advertising exclusivity until 2011 if i'm not mistaken....
This in itself is why the 15billion odd estimate of FB's worth is wrong.... Nobody knows exactly how much the 1.6% stake was bought for, but its a safe bet the extension of the advertising exclusivity was a larger portion of the 240million that MS paid to FB.
As for the paranoid ppl... get a grip.. your information is already out there, if someone wants it they'll get it... but nobody really cares about lil old you...
This in itself is why the 15billion odd estimate of FB's worth is wrong.... Nobody knows exactly how much the 1.6% stake was bought for, but its a safe bet the extension of the advertising exclusivity was a larger portion of the 240million that MS paid to FB.
As for the paranoid ppl... get a grip.. your information is already out there, if someone wants it they'll get it... but nobody really cares about lil old you...
LOL @ using IP addresses to track serial numbers
/Me takes a bow..
Microsoft and RIAA/MPAA have close ties now. Vista was made for MPAA and content protection, and MPAA/RIAA dont use nice tactics to get information.
The end of digital freedom?
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Then don't use Vista to watch pirated movies or listen to pirated songs. I'm pretty sure there are 3rd party codecs and players for Vista that aren't trying to get through your tinfoil hat too.
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LOL apart from that, MPAA/RIAA are out of their jurisdiction here. And our laws are far different to theirs wrt to content. But what do they have to do with facebook? The whole world doesn't revolve around what happens in the USA. If people want your info, they will get it - it doesn't even have to be someone as big as MS. I highly doubt that MS is willing to spend that much money just for info on your personal life They own the OS that you are probably using, if they wanted your info, they'd have it by now.
They own the OS that you are probably using, if they wanted your info, they'd have it by now.
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LOL apart from that, MPAA/RIAA are out of their jurisdiction here. And our laws are far different to theirs wrt to content. But what do they have to do with facebook? The whole world doesn't revolve around what happens in the USA. If people want your info, they will get it - it doesn't even have to be someone as big as MS. I highly doubt that MS is willing to spend that much money just for info on your personal life
I am not saying they -WILL- .. but they could... I choose to follow history whereby microsoft has constantly abused its power.
besides... anyone on Facebook really needs to get a life.
I disabled my facebook account before the MS purchase. I was already getting paranoid despite the fake name I used. There is a nice kind of freedom when no one knows what you're doing this weekend, and you don't have a clue what they're doing either, or what they had for lunch etc.
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$240 buys you 1.6%? So with $15 000 I could buy Facebook?
I think they can get at least $ 20 000 Fixed...