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December 14th 2015, 01:44 PM
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shevek
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the cost of unknowingly granting access to somebody else or any foreign system, can easily overshadow the relatively minuscule cost of purchasing legitimate software.

It would, if it worked. I see no reason why cracked versions of Windows are much worse than legal versions. Snowden explained that Microsoft passes all your data to the NSA. Windows 10 pretty much works in the cloud, so they have all your personal data. And that's just the ways they intended. Microsoft is known to not care about fixing security problems. Your best bet at protecting yourself (apart from writing your own OS, which is not an option for most people) is to use a system that can be publicly scrutinized. If Microsoft puts backdoors in Windows (and they do; they admitted users cannot even disable Windows 10 spying on you, I'm sure things are worse than they admit), how much worse does it have to get? If you care about privacy, don't use Windows. It's that simple. (The other big US companies that Snowden talked about are obviously no better; don't give your private data to Google, Facebook, or Apple either.)

I will omit my opinions on the copyright perspective except to say I am a working musician.

Actually, that makes me very interested in your opinions. I think the copyright system is broken, and as far as I know regular people don't actually make money from it (which isn't to say that they don't make money from their work, just that copyright is not the reason people want to pay for them). I'm a programmer and could attempt to use copyright to protect my "property", but I choose not to. I'm very interested to hear what your thoughts on this are. But that deserves to be a new topic, so I opened it for you. Please make the title correct.