Microsoft tackles local software pirates

[rpm]

Microsoft takes aim at SA pirates

Microsoft is clamping down on South African software counterfeiters

 

[ingeon]

resellers who have been caught selling bogus software to unsuspecting consumers

Probably also means targeting resellers selling linux

 

[xrapidx]

Thought they were targeting consumers - was wondering how exactly they know.

 

[zeely]

what a joke

one of our competitors is selling point of sale systems with pirated windows on every single machine. Over the last 5 years they have probably pirated over a thousand copies of windows and a thousand copies of office

their clients have reported them to BSA, SAFACT AND Microsoft.

Nothing has happened. No-one has ever even bothered responding to the issue.

 

[Nth0862]

Don't they have better things to do?

 

[xrapidx]

Hellopeter that - I want to see MS response.

 

[xrapidx]

Don't they have better things to do?

Nope - Win7 is bug free

 

[LordFoom]

This is all good for open source. Pirating is one of the ways MS got its dominance in emerging markets.

 

[cookiemonster]

“The risk of viruses hidden in fake software is a growing problem - especially given that 36% of all software in South Africa is used illegally. Victims risk losing personal information, having their identities stolen, and wasting valuable time and money,”

Victims of piracy or high prices?

 

[apogeeza]

Microsoft South Africa's managing director, Mteto Nyati, says the company supports the seizing of hundreds of counterfeit Xbox games by Customs officials after a recent raid on the Brightwater Commons market.

you freeking gamers are paaa-theee-tiiic: you cry like spoilt bratz because ADSL is not good enough, claiming you're willing to pay more for a better service (when that's a lie, you actually want more for less like the rest of us) then you claim outright loyalty to MS because you cannot shoot-em-up in Direct-X luxury in Linux, then go for broke by spending thousands upon thousands on high end ultra-sensitive rats and GPUs and stuff, but you put a knife in MS's back by diddling them out of a few coins (ag shame, they really need the coins, the recession clapped them hard you know!!!) ... so how much do you save by being a dirty rotten stinkin' pirate? R20? R50?

you're still looozerz

now, I'm off to start a fire in another thread

 

[GuileX]

ROFL

 

[Keeper]

ag shame, they really need the coins, the recession clapped them hard you know!!!

Yes, the Most successful and richest man in history started microsoft, they REALLY DO need those "coins"

shame.....

Microsoft are so poor


whut evar

 

[Moederloos]

Good news. Nail the bastards. Then maybe we will see the retailers offering Linux instead.

 

[porchrat]

so how much do you save by being a dirty rotten stinkin' pirate? R20? R50?

you're still looozerz

now, I'm off to start a fire in another thread

Dude, those games are insane prices... who in their right mind would pay R700 for a single game?

I'm not surprised they pirate as they are probably saving more like R500 or R600.

 

[yavahn]

ag nou ja....

 

[aStateOfTrance]

"For example, one piracy exploit caused more than one million reported system crashes on non-genuine machines before Microsoft could resolve it."

Why is Microsoft trying to fix software bugs in non-genuine machines !? They should leave it as it is so that users of non-genuine software pay the costs, otherwise Microsoft is fueling the piracy by supporting and patching bootleg versions of Windows OS

 

[Kaufies]

Then maybe we will see the retailers offering Linux instead.

They should do that anyway! I reckon they don't 'cause they make money when users run to them with support queries about Windows

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

what a joke

one of our competitors is selling point of sale systems with pirated windows on every single machine. Over the last 5 years they have probably pirated over a thousand copies of windows and a thousand copies of office

their clients have reported them to BSA, SAFACT AND Microsoft.

Nothing has happened. No-one has ever even bothered responding to the issue.

Agree

4yrs ago I reported a local Somerset West PC dealer (who now operated from his home) on pirated XP that he charged his clients for. M$ where only interested if we could give M$ a receipt and a counterfeit DVD (it had to look like the real thing).

So nothing happened.

 

[xrapidx]

"For example, one piracy exploit caused more than one million reported system crashes on non-genuine machines before Microsoft could resolve it."

Why is Microsoft trying to fix software bugs in non-genuine machines !? They should leave it as it is so that users of non-genuine software pay the costs, otherwise Microsoft is fueling the piracy by supporting and patching bootleg versions of Windows OS

Because sometimes the bug allows the users machine to be used as a host for other attacks, i.e. on paid for systems.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

"For example, one piracy exploit caused more than one million reported system crashes on non-genuine machines before Microsoft could resolve it."

Why is Microsoft trying to fix software bugs in non-genuine machines !? They should leave it as it is so that users of non-genuine software pay the costs, otherwise Microsoft is fueling the piracy by supporting and patching bootleg versions of Windows OS

Its because they had 1 million unhappy users. Just because you have a cracked version today does not mean you will not have a legally licenced version tomorrow.