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'