[SATLUG] man arrested for copying own CD's

[Geoff]

John C wrote:
> real products phone home. in fact, almost all windows products phone
> home as companies try to figure out how to create secondary revenue
> streams. they can sell your data to marketers and profit.
>
> are they doing this? i have no idea but it does sound plausible...and no
> tin foil hats were harmed in the constructions of this reply  :)

yes, they are.  Anyone bench jockey that's ever ran a decent spy/ad-ware 
removal program will tell you that MS has their own version of spyware.

Google does, as well.