Removing "Annoying" Windows 10 Features is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says * TorrentFreak
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Microsoft has hit Ninjutsu with a DMCA notice. The company argues that tweaking and disabling of Windows 10 features violates its license.
  • CyRepo
    6·
    5 years ago

    Imagine buying a car and not be allowed to customize it. No new mags or lights… it feel like when you pay Microsoft you dont actuallt buy there product but you “rent” the privilege to use a “service”. I’ll stick to pirated version then. Nice business model MS!

    • SirLotsaLocks
      3·
      5 years ago

      not to mention that car also keeps adding features that guzzle more gas, but you can’t get rid of them even though it would make the car run better and those “features” are generally bad.

      • Jim
        5·
        5 years ago

        or imagine if you could get 10% off the price of the car but the navigation system will pick routes that go by certain billboards

    • Jim
      3·
      5 years ago

      Cory Doctorow talks about how this might be justifiable if it is a self-driving car but that it will spread to all our devices. Locked bootloaders everywhere.

      https://lemmy.ml/post/34512

  • Ephera
    6·
    5 years ago

    That seems like bullshit. The modification of Windows 10 and therefore the potential license violation would have to be carried out by each individual user. The availability of a tool to ease that is itself not a violation, especially considering that the author could have theoretically created it without ever entering into the License Agreement of Windows. You can’t claim a violation of a contract without even showing the existence of said contract.

    Obviously, though, GitHub will not fight a legal inquiry by their owner and just abuse their right to kick a user out.

    • kernel
      2·
      5 years ago

      I really want to switch permanently to Linux but I’ve had nothing but graphics driver issues with NVIDIA.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        2·
        5 years ago

        Same, unfortunately. I have a cheap Nvidia graphics card (one of the half height ones) and it has been the death of every rolling release installation I’ve had. On standard release distros it’s generally been fine though. For Linux, AMD graphics look like the better option.

        • kernel
          2·
          5 years ago

          I do a little of a lot of different stuff, running VMs on Windows on a desktop PC is what’s currently working out best for me right now. About graphics, if the red camp allows for more stability then I’ll consider retrying a full linux setup again.