[FactolSarin]

How does something like this get to the front page? Someone provides a cracked copy of Windows and calls it "Ninjitsu OS" and then cries foul when it's taken down because of course it was.

Is there that much of an anti-Microsoft sentiment that people upvote something like this uncritically?

[dathinab]

Because Microsofts claims where not about a illegal distribution of windows and it's a modified copy but not a cracked copy. (Still illegal).

This means it was just a easy way to run a modified windows which still required a working license key.

Or at least that is the point the article is making.

[chenzhekl]

I bet lots of people who upvoted the post didn't even read the main text.

[user5994461]

I read the text and it says nothing like it. It's all about DMCA takedown for removing telemetry, not a single mention of distributing cracked ISO of windows.

[wvenable]

Whichever legal assistant at BSA (not known for their subtly) wrote that take down was clearly confused but it's plainly clear that was targeted because it they distributed a modified Windows ISO.

There have always been tweaking tools for Windows unless we suddenly see a huge crackdown on the hundreds of other products that remove telemetry, etc, I would consider this overblown.

[toyg]

People often read only the headline.

HN is the new newspaper, but still a newspaper.