DRM strikes again

[lordshipmayhem]

Anyone who has Windows Genuine Advantage turned on has a small problem right now: Microsoft WGA servers down; all XP and Vista installs being marked as counterfeit

See story here.

(And people wonder why I prefer Open Source software. It never needs to Phone Home to determine if it's a legitimate install or not.)

Comments

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

Thaaaaaat would explain why I'm having to use a Codec to play my downloads.

Fun times at the okay corral (though I still need to see if I can find someone who can tell me if my reformat threw my new OS on top of the old one because I've got a TON of missing space that's just nowhere to be found or explained)

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

Let me get this straight: when you look at the size of your hard drive, it's mysteriously shrunk in size?

My immediate thought is maybe the additional space has been carved out by a zombie program and you're running a spambot or something equally hideous.

[kats-kradle.livejournal.com]

Well it hasn't shrunk in size. What's happened is that, between the size of the OS and all the various programs and files we have on it we are missing a good chunk of space, it's full/being used.

...of/by something which we know not what. Theory put forth right now is that when we did the reformat (I was asleep at the time so I have no idea what went on) the OS we got and reformatted with was somehow pasted over the OS that we were trying to reformat so that they're both there and using space, but we're only using the recently installed one.

I don't really know how viable a theory but that's what was put out by Dos so we're getting some backup to look into it.