"potentially placing millions of software pirates and their families at risk"

Here's where the arguement falls apart.

If the piracy problem is a big as they claim (and I have no doubt that it is), they are placing the entire world at risk. Millions of computers will be unpatched, creating millions of departure points for countless forms of malware.

One could say that those who pay for the software will get patched and will therefore be protected. But that notion rides on top of the notion that computers with the latest patches from Microsoft are safe.

We've all seen how "safe" Windows computers became after the advent of SP2.

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