The emulator community developed .ips files to allow distribution of modifications to ROM files, without having to worry about the legal issues of distributing modified ROM files themselves. I'm surprised there aren't tools to use this or something similar with .ISOs.
Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
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Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's user hostile enough to have telemetry and ads in the OS in the first place. I may be alone, but I think those two things are very different classes of feature, and am very relaxed about the former as an opt out.
The opt-out does not exist for Home and Pro users. Only Windows 10 Enterprise can completely disable the telemetry engine. Unless you take extra steps (firewall rules, network-level blocking, etc.) Microsoft will get a ping every time a new device is plugged in and there's no way to disable that for the common user. I used to accept most telemetry popups from Microsoft before they became opt-out, but in the scheme MS…
> I don't think MS let their customers make an informed choice about their data collection.
I think this is part of a larger problem where no single individual can given informed consent to any corporate contract because one involves a team of lawyers and the other involves an average person. Even if the single individual was a lawyer it would be questionable, but for the average person who has a limited college education and no special legal education at all, there is far too great a power difference for informed consent to be given.
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#143The website is down, but yeah, offering customised ISO files with Windows and some tools is clearly a breach of license. You can't just take a paid OS distribution, add some config and plonk it onto github. There's been people patching and customising Windows for many years, but most of the time that was done in the form of gaining an official ISO, patching it with a program on your computer and then using that to in…
But that is not what the DMCA copyright claim says. It does not complain about redistributing the files of a paid OS. The complaint is explicitly about providing a tool to work around technical restrictions, so "just provided an exe and some patch files" will not make microsoft happy. A common copyright claim of someone sharing copies of proprietary files would not make news. Using the DRM circumvention provision in…
What exactly is the basis for this DMCA claim? Is there any precedent for this or does MS just think their PR has it too easy?
DRM is supposed to prevent redistribution of copyrighted works. That's the unethical part. If the user is not redistributing copyrighted works, why should the law care about the preservation of DRM?
If I buy a locked safe at an auction and it contains a bunch of copyrighted paintings, nobody would get mad at me for breaking the lock so I could get to them. What else am I going to do? Hang the safe on my wall? The problem only arises if I start copying the paintings and distributing them.
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#144The website is down, but yeah, offering customised ISO files with Windows and some tools is clearly a breach of license. You can't just take a paid OS distribution, add some config and plonk it onto github. There's been people patching and customising Windows for many years, but most of the time that was done in the form of gaining an official ISO, patching it with a program on your computer and then using that to in…
But that is not what the DMCA copyright claim says. It does not complain about redistributing the files of a paid OS. The complaint is explicitly about providing a tool to work around technical restrictions, so "just provided an exe and some patch files" will not make microsoft happy. A common copyright claim of someone sharing copies of proprietary files would not make news. Using the DRM circumvention provision in…
> technical restrictions being alluded to is the advertisement and telemetry that is baked in.
I'm pretty sure the complaint is about anti-piracy features. In that situation it's a picture perfect application of DMCA. Also it would make way more sense.
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just checked: in Windows 8.1 (and therefore, all versions of Windows 10), the "Don't search the web or display web results in Search" Group Policy works fine in Pro/Enterprise/Education/Business. The "Disable Microsoft Consumer Experiences" one only works in Enterprise/Education, however. If you are on Home, and don't have gpedit.msc, make a new DWORD in "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows…
On my Windows 10 Pro 20.04 edition, that group policy has no effect. The only way to get rid of it was to use the registry edit you've also referenced.
Odd. Did you run gpupdate /force afterwards? I've deployed it to Pro boxes before with no issues.
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#146No more spyware, telemetry, ads or forced/unwanted remote software modifications - I call it „self defense“
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
AMD has excellent open source support. They embraced the Linux community a few years ago, and we now have a high quality AMD driver mainlined in the Linux kernel. Games run very well on AMD/Linux, including Steam/Proton. It's NVIDIA that is completely Linux/OSS hostile, and still follows the broken proprietary driver approach they have been doing for years. On top of that they actively ignore the agreed community sta…
Nvidia has always had super high quality Linux drivers. It’s their lack of desire to open source pieces of them to make them work better with desktop Linux that is the issue. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of Nvidia GPUs used on Linux don’t have a screen connected to them, so supporting wayland isn’t really a priority.
> Nvidia has always had super high quality Linux drivers.
I assume you've never used an optimus enabled laptop on Linux? Or dealt with the horribly fragmented driver versions? Or the fact the binary blob installer likes to dump random files all over your system? Or DRM/KMS issues in the past? The wayland incompatibilities and refusal to support the GBM kernel API is just the latest in a long history of terrible Linux support.
AMD just works out of the box - high quality and fast drivers with zero config required.
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#148How does something like this get to the front page? Someone provides a cracked copy of Windows and calls it "Ninjitsu OS" and then cries foul when it's taken down because of course it was. Is there that much of an anti-Microsoft sentiment that people upvote something like this uncritically?
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Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
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The ISO is provided so you can download to your Windows 7 PC and upgrade in place to Windows 10. I did it on my old laptop, works well. Microsoft really wants Windows 7 to go away and they actually give the tools to do so. I think it's great!
Respectfully disagree. This is a story of a personal laptop of mine. Upgrading from Win 7 to win 8 with paid upgrade sometime after win 8 was 'stable' The upgrade tool works fine until it doesn't. When it chooses not to work, it will have you DL the upgrade files, as well as updates to OS, this can take forever and is a major point of failure for techs. (random hangs, reboots, loops, you name it) But the really evil…
The upgrade path is only from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as far as I am aware. Microsoft extended licenses so that license for Windows 7 are valid for Windows 10 and vice versa. This might unfortunately have been after your story.
Windows XP never had an upgrade path (couldn't even change hardware like the motherboard safely) so it's progress in my mind. Windows 8 was a mess that was dropped shortly after release, I am sorry for all the souls who had to try it.
There is a very good backup tool embedded since Windows 7 that allows to snapshot and restore the system. Highly recommend to use.
Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No activation was not removed, a license is still required. This was even explicitly stated in the linked article, but for some reason people keep asserting in this thread that it was a cracked version of windows. Am I missing something, or are people just making big assumptions and not reading the article?
I can't legally give you something copyrighted even if you can't use it without a valid license code. It's still copyrighted. But that's not what Microsoft is asserting here: the headline (which arguably conveys the main point) says it's about the anti-circumvention clauses of USA's DMCA law.
Yeah, because while distributing the basic .iso is illegal what are Microsoft's damages? They distribute it for free anyway, their losses are $0 from someone else distributing it.