Microsoft misses the point.

Recently, zeropaid discussed the ever increasing and stringent antipiracy measures that microsoft is said to have developed for its vista platform, saying that even a legitimate owner of the software will have difficulty in maintaining full program functionality. here, once again we have an example of a large corporation missing the point and fighting the wrong fight. the basic premise that a corporation could develop a "uncrackable" antipiracy protection system is laughable. the problem is that large businesses in general tend to vastly underestimate the abilities and the tenacity of the "hacker" subculture. at some point, microsoft as well as other big companies need to realize that attempting to thwart a growing, highly intelligent community of individuals who crack programs recreationally is ridiculous. the companies just cannot change their protections often enough to fight off hoardes of programmers who thrive on "freeing" their software. A similar situation exists between the RIAA and the file sharing community. the harder the RIAA comes down, the smarter file sharers will get. the simple truth is that without impinging on our freedom to use the internet as we see fit, there is no way to stop the free exchange of information, both open source and copyrighted. these companies are going to need to adopt a different policy if they want to stay in buisness. the exchange of information is a powerful force, and the companies need to respect and work with that force. trying to stop it is like trying to put out a fire by throwing ice cubes at it.