1. Getting robbed by
Microsoft. Paying 599 EUR for the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, 460 EUR for the hardware upgrades needed to use it and getting that lovely "This copy of Microsoft
Windows(R) is not genuine."
box after two weeks' use. How come the users who actually pay for their software suffer from the antipiracy campaign while the users with warez versions have no problems at all?
2. Having to waste lots of time to view the FBI warnings every time one starts to play a genuine DVD while the pirated versions usually omit these warnings or at least have no limits on using fast forward to skip them.
3. The compatibility problems associated with protected audio
CD's. While the consumers buying genuine versions have to cope with these problems, the others using pirated versions with no copy protection or downloading MP3's and burning
CD's themselves are not affected. An extreme example was the Sony rootkit
scam.
4. The
annoying tendency of some games to require that the game
CD-ROM is present every time the game is started/played even if the game is fully installed on the hard drive. Again, the pirated versions often come with a patch which disables the
CD check, thus creating a more pleasant gaming experience.
Person 1: 'I actually paid
Microsoft 599 euros for this piece of
crap and now it says it's not genuine'
Person 2: 'That's just unfair'
Person
3: 'But that's just Microsoft's Genuine Disadvantage'