toniur summed it up pretty well. In my opinion the main problem MS faces is how to make something easy to use, but difficult to copy. These are opposites and you can't be at both extremes at once. It isn't so much a technical problem as a social one. Why is piracy much higher in some countries than in others? It can't be that the software protection is weaker there, or people are smarter in breaking the lock. This is similar to asking why drivers on the road obey the traffic rules better in some countries than in others. So there is a tradeoff all the time.
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by: toniurPosted on 2007-04-28 at 05:20:05ID: 18994156
I guess you are not looking for particular answer but for different opinions. Here is mine:
IMHO MS activation procedures did not reduce piracy, but only increase TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) because this procedures take time. And god forbid there is something wrong with your original key and system won't activate or you change hardware configuration and you have to re-activate. To be honest I'm dumping all costs of activation, re-activation problems on to my customers and if they complain I redirect their complaints to local MS office.
There is no mechanism that can be called "waterproof" in IT. There is a proverb:" With every door there is a lock, but for every lock, there is a key."
And at the end why do you bother if someone else is using illegal software as long as you don't. ;)
Interesting reading: Is EU going to decriminalize "personal" privacy? "Piracy committed by private users for personal, non-profit purposes are therefore also excluded."
More info: http://www.europarl.europa
If piracy is redifined, so should be mechanisms to stop it!
My opinion,
Toni