OfCom's new plans for Internet piracy in the UK

[xxMATTGxx]

Honestly Tom the only people downloading Windows are looking to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. They should be able to do that for free anyway

Well Apple didn't do Snow Leopard for free, so why should Microsoft?

[Recursion]

Honestly Tom the only people downloading Windows are looking to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. They should be able to do that for free anyway

Dude, I'm Tom, Android is someone else, THIS IS LIKE THE 1290472389473489572389047895 TIME YOU'VE DONE THIS.

I changed my name from Android like a year ago. LOL

[GommeInc]

Dude, I'm Tom, Android is someone else, THIS IS LIKE THE 1290472389473489572389047895 TIME YOU'VE DONE THIS.

I changed my name from Android like a year ago. LOL

You both have had the name Android? :S I just assumed one died and the other one took on the corpse

And as MattGarner said, why didn't Apple release Snow Leopard for free? At least there were huge differences between Vista and 7. The only main difference between Leopard and Snow Leopard was the nifty function to remove everything on your hard-drive just by using the guest account, and that had little to no practical uses or warning!

[AgnesIO]

Honestly Tom the only people downloading Windows are looking to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. They should be able to do that for free anyway

Why would Microsoft let people upgrade for free. I can't see Adobe giving free upgrades to CS5 for people who bought CS4? Nor apple with their os, or people who bout 'Fifa 09' or any other games at that point?

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Sorry Tom :L Will change my name soon - when I chose it I didn't really think about you having the name

[Moh]

ISP's only target uploaders, most the uploads are done in the USA, so all's good

[Apolva]

Why would Microsoft let people upgrade for free. I can't see Adobe giving free upgrades to CS5 for people who bought CS4? Nor apple with their os, or people who bout 'Fifa 09' or any other games at that point?

I think he's referring to the amount of issues people have with vista which are fixed in 7 (thus unhappy customers).

[Moh]

I think he's referring to the amount of issues people have with vista which are fixed in 7 (thus unhappy customers).

Didn't MS say Windows 7 is how Vista should have been too?!

[xxMATTGxx]

I think he's referring to the amount of issues people have with vista which are fixed in 7 (thus unhappy customers).

I see but you can see the differences in Windows 7. When Snow Leopard came out, many people were reporting that it should of just been released as a free update. But never mind!

Didn't MS say Windows 7 is how Vista should have been too?!

Something like that.

[Apolva]

When Snow Leopard came out, many people were reporting that it should of just been released as a free update. But never mind!

True, although they charged quite a lot underneath which required a fresh reinstall anyway (I think).

[peteyt]

If I got a letter i'd stop.

Question is - how do they identify the downloads? I mean its like I heard something a while back about ISPs stopping people who use P2P software - the problem is the software is legal - will they be able to tell the difference between legal and illegal torrents and so on?