In one clean sweep, Microsoft can convert millions of pirates into legitimate users. The move is also seen as an olive branch to China, where as much as three quarters of all PC software, including Windows, is pirated.
The idea here is that with a legitimate copy of Windows in hand, even pirates may be more likely to shell out for Microsoft’s other products like Skype and Office 365. It’s dropped from 23 percent of revenue to 16 percent, year over year, between Windows and Office licenses. Thus, even the slightest perceived issues, such as anti-piracy measures in Xbox Live, become the cause for more paranoia.Even though Microsoft has long struggled with piracy issues, licensing is becoming an increasingly less important part of their revenue model. By not clearly explaining certain aspects of Windows 10 (such as the way taskbar searches phone home even with Bing disabled ), and enabling features like Wi-Fi Sense and peer-to-peer updates by default, the company has seeded some distrust in its latest operating system. Why this matters: While the reaction from private torrent trackers is extreme, that doesn’t mean Microsoft is blameless. But again, there’s no sign that this is actually happening, so all we have are a few sites taking an abundance of caution in lieu of hard evidence. The concern appears to be that that these trackers could be exposed by Microsoft’s monitoring of its own Internet services. “What’s particularly nasty is that apparently it sends the results of local(!!) searches to a well known anti piracy company directly so as soon as you have one known p2p or scene release on your local disk … BAM!,” BB staff wrote to its users.
According to TorrentFreak, tracker operators BB and FSC are also considering a ban on Windows 10. Nonetheless, iTS’s extreme stand against Windows 10 seems to be inspiring some other trackers.
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