PIRATE'S - Sue MS OVER WGA Vista News Discuss PIRATE'S - Sue MS OVER WGA in the Windows Vista forums; Chinese Student Sues Microsoft for Privacy Violation A Beijing college student claims that Microsoft's antipiracy program violates his privacy, according to a Chinese government-controlled news site. Gregg Keizer, ...

[Snuffy]

Chinese Student Sues Microsoft for Privacy Violation
A Beijing college student claims that Microsoft's antipiracy program violates his privacy, according to a Chinese government-controlled news site.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:00 PM PDT
parts of article read all of it: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...1/article.html

Lu's lawsuit said Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) antipiracy software posed a threat to his privacy and the security of his PC, which runs Windows XP. He also claimed that he was not properly informed before XP installed WGA Notifications, a separate program that flags counterfeit copies and nags users running pirated versions.

At least one lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft in the U.S. over WGA. The June 2006 suit by Brian Johnson accused WGA of spyware-like behavior, and argued that Microsoft had thus violated consumer and antispyware laws. That case is ongoing, but has not been scheduled for trial.

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Question. Why "PIRATES" in the title? Just because "he was not properly informed before XP installed WGA Notifications, a separate program that flags counterfeit copies and nags users running pirated versions", don't automaticly mean he was running an illegal product. He could just be unhappy that MS installed it with his notice. Unless I am wrong or being to trusting to people I don't think he should be auto classed as an illegal software runner. What Do you think?

[Snuffy]

Again this depends on how you (not a lawyer) reads and understands the EULA.

By reading all the (several) posts and links around, he claims he is a "PIRATE" and the Downloads were installed w/o his permission, which in turn shut his version of XP down to limited access.

Now you would have to go to the chinesse with, load a transulator and read carefully. He does not " explain" in perfect english... but it (IMHO) translates to "he was/is using a illegal version of Windows XP".

He is only sueing for US Dollars $179.00....