Removing "Annoying" Windows 10 features violates the DMCA, according to Microsoft.
Removing "Annoying" Windows 10 features violates the DMCA, according to Microsoft.
The author argues that removing features from Windows 10 may violate the DMCA. Microsoft is accused of overreaching, and concerns grow about future actions targeting lightweight or alternative OS versions.
Am I to understand that this isn't just a tool you install, but a modded version of Windows? If so, releasing it to the public IS a DMCA violation, as you do not own the code to Windows (apparently the ISO is like, 17GB). There's a difference between modding your own OS with some tools and the act of providing the already modded OS out for all to use. Even more so if it's a pirated version of Windows. Not sure why they decided to ban hammer it down based on the "removal of features" though...
Eh, yes but. The only way to actually remove the spyware from Windows 10 *is* to release a recompiled version that doesn't have the stuff built in. Not all of that stuff can be removed during runtime because Windows is specifically designed to prevent modification of certain areas and that design actually does work (most of the time). So this isn't as clear cut as M$ lawyers might want it to be. Now, once you get into Voir Dire for the case, if you even give them a whiff that you understand that you'll be taken out of the jury pool. But still, it's simple logic. If a company makes it so that they get to spy on you no matter what, and you say no, that *isn't* a copyright violation. That's a privacy violation. The fact that the company made it so that they also had to commit a copyright violation to fix the privacy violation is an entirely different matter.