Gregg Keizer reports:
A federal judge last week dismissed a three-year-old lawsuit that accused Microsoft of duping customers when it fed them company anti-piracy software as a critical security update, court documents show.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones dismissed the case last Friday, a day after the plaintiffs and Microsoft agreed to drop the lawsuit.
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Multiple lawsuits filed in July 2006 claimed that Microsoft mislead users by labeling the WGA software as a security update, and failed to tell customers that WGA collected information from their PCs, then frequently “phoned home” the data to Microsoft’s servers. The plaintiffs later combined their cases and asked the court to grant the joint lawsuit as a class-action.
Read more on Computerworld.
The plaintiffs seem to have dropped the suit because of the way the judicial winds were blowing. So it seems that Microsoft or any other company can dupe consumers into downloading and installing software that spies on the consumer’s system and “phones home” and they may get away with it.
Ah well, just as in Ancient Rome, the Judges Are REQUIRED to serve the Patricians. It’s a forgone conclusion that the Republic is dead, and the Empire is coming (or already here).
Our choices are simple. Serve the Patricians, wear their Torc, or become their slaves, and wear their yokes.