{"id":71,"date":"2005-08-10T00:21:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T21:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-08-10T00:21:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T21:21:39","slug":"microsoft-back-to-drawing-board-on-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2005\/08\/10\/microsoft-back-to-drawing-board-on-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft back to drawing board on piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Barely] 24 hours after the announcement [of WGA], <a href=\"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=52\">simple code to bypass the check<\/a> &#8211; a line of Javascript &#8211; was posted on the internet. Within a week, two more <a href=\"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=68\">methods<\/a> had been posted to different sites. A Microsoft spokesman said [&#8230;] WGA was not designed to catch counterfeiters or prevent hacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/breaking\/microsoft-back-to-drawing-board-on-piracy\/2005\/08\/08\/1123353252441.html?oneclick=true\">SMH (&reg;)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=25245\">via The Inquirer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsnow.com\/\">via BlogsNow<\/a><br \/>\n<em>some links added<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, what was it designed for, then? According to the spokesperson, &#8220;its intent is to help innocent customers realise the full value of authentic Windows software while protecting investments made by our partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So they think people undervalue Microsoft software because they&#8217;re using illegal copies &#8211; which are inferior to legal copies&#8230; how? And &#8220;protecting investments&#8221; &#8211; isn&#8217;t that just trying to spin &#8220;knocking out the pirates&#8221; so that it no longer looks like &#8220;knocking out the pirates&#8221; when asked whether or not they&#8217;re, in fact, just trying to &#8220;knock out the pirates&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Barely] 24 hours after the announcement [of WGA], simple code to bypass the check &#8211; a line of Javascript &#8211; was posted on the internet. Within a week, two more methods had been posted to different sites. A Microsoft spokesman said [&#8230;] WGA was not designed to catch counterfeiters or prevent hacks.&#8221; SMH (&reg;) via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}