Downloading a copy of Jurassic World might be a little trickier this week. If you’ve upgraded your computer to Windows 10, you might no longer be welcome on certain torrent sites.
Over the past couple of weeks several torrent trackers have started blocking users that run Windows 10. Why? According to one group — iTS — “Windows 10 sends the contents of your local disks directly to one of their servers.” Sounds frightening, right? And it would be, if it was true — especially if the contents included pirate downloads.
The reality, however, is that Windows 10 isn’t doing a heck of a lot different than its predecessors do. And that license agreement that had the Internet up in arms recently? It applies to Microsoft’s many cloud-connected services, not Windows — so if you’re using them on Windows 7, 8.1, or even XP then you’re “being snooped on” as much as a Windows 10 user is.
Another common complaint is that Microsoft shares data with MarkMonitor, a company that provides “full-spectrum anti-piracy solutions for digital content.” Generally, that information is used to prevent phishing attacks or to supplement SmartScreen’s trusted software database. Again — this isn’t specific to Windows 10.
If you really are a hardcore pirate who’s not going to take this kind of crap from a service provider, though, you really ought to know how to flick the necessary switches to disable the kind of data transmission these torrent sites are up in arms about. That, or you should be using Linux or have a nice, configurable firewall set up — or both.
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