{"id":61277,"date":"2009-12-03T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091202\/1521377170.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-03T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:12:00","slug":"microsoft-exec-piracy-no-longer-a-threat-to-us-because-pirates-will-get-destroyed-by-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/61277","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Exec: Piracy No Longer A Threat To Us, Because Pirates Will Get Destroyed By Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, perhaps the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but it certainly appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/microsoft-piracy-no-longer-poses-a-threat-to-us-1202?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20Freakbits%20%28freakbits.com%29\" >what a Microsoft exec in the Philippines implied<\/a> in a recent interview concerning Windows 7.  Basically, he said that using unauthorized copies of the OS were really unsafe, so doing things like online banking or other sensitive stuff on such software could put users in serious danger.  Of course, that makes you wonder what Microsoft has done to make unauthorized copies of the software so dangerous to use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091202\/1521377170.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091202\/1521377170.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091202\/1521377170&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=bbf31181f4a2f86b313127756b62cd7c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=bbf31181f4a2f86b313127756b62cd7c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Fd3WIBvOPFE:DGJ2kqcEslg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=Fd3WIBvOPFE:DGJ2kqcEslg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Fd3WIBvOPFE:DGJ2kqcEslg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/Fd3WIBvOPFE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, perhaps the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but it certainly appears to be what a Microsoft exec in the Philippines implied in a recent interview concerning Windows 7. Basically, he said that using unauthorized copies of the OS were really unsafe, so doing things like online banking or other sensitive stuff on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}