Message #20864

[andream]

Well the actual issue here is really the Audit itself.  Microsoft XP HAS To be registered after so many starts, or it will cease to function.  

The real trick for a company is being confronted by BSA Auditors.  Okay.  Let's assume your company is dirty.  They've shown up at your front door.  Do you have to let them in? Uhh no. Until they get a court order, which they can't actually get.

Now, can Microsoft come into your office and Audit? uhhh no.  Can they electronicallymonitor your software,,, well yes and no, if you go to the microsoft website and attempt an update, yes, they can scan it, but at this time they don't, however they will eventually.

So can the software pirate people come in llike storm troopers and check out what's on your PC? Nope.  Can they make your life miserable in other ways.  Uhh yeah.

Bottom line, I personally take a dim view of software piracy, but I take an even dimmer view of our personal rights being any more eroded than they already are.//

My tuppence