Genuine disadvantage

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Getting robbed by Microsoft. Paying [599] [EUR] for the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, [460] EUR for the hardware upgrades needed to use it and getting that lovely This copy of Microsoft Windows(R) is not genuine. box after two weeks use. How come the users who actually pay for their software suffer from the antipiracy campaign while the users with warez versions have no problems at all?

Having to waste lots of time to view the FBI warnings every time one starts to play a genuine DVD while the [pirated] versions usually [omit] these warnings or at least have no limits on using [fast forward] to skip them.

The compatibility problems associated with protected audio CDs. While the consumers buying genuine versions have to cope with these problems, the others using pirated versions with no copy protection or downloading [MP3s] and burning CDs themselves are not affected. An extreme example was the Sony [rootkit] scam.

The annoying tendency of some games to require that the game [CD-ROM] is present every time the game is started/played even if the game is fully installed on the hard drive. Again, the pirated versions often come with a patch which disables the CD check, thus creating a more pleasant gaming experience.