Gary wrote:

If credit card companys monitor everything you purchase,

They don't. They only monitor the purchases I used my credit card I
have with them.

I still use cash alot.

Banks every
transaction you make,

No they don't.

Telephone companys every call you make,

I've used anonymous phone cards.

Stores
every purchase you make,

Again, I still use cash.

etc, etc. Then what is it about WGA that is
makeing you so paranoid?

I'm not paranoid about it. I don't NEED it for ANYTHING! It doesn't
make my computer run faster, better, or more efficiently. In fact, it
wastes my bandwith, adds more things that can go wrong with my OS, and
is still beta code on top of all that!

Or is just something you can stand on your soap box and rant about?

Copy-protection is anti-consumer technology. No consumer NEEDS it.
Period!

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