Probably a good time to move to open source.  Hopefully one of these days ReactOS (a Windows clone) will be at a stage that it can be used as an everyday operating system, and I'll be able to give Micro$oft the finger once and for all.  (Though you can be sure that M$ is going to try everything they can - legal or otherwise - to put a stop to it.  Earlier this year, an unsubstantiated claim that ReactOS contained Microsoft code caused a massive slowdown of the project as the entire code base had to be audited to make sure the code was "clean").

Meanwhile Micro$oft requires validation for updates and such, meaning that when you run Windows Update it can tell if you're using a pirated, counterfeit, cracked or otherwise non-genuine version and refused to update (or worse).  Also just to be dicks M$ has made it so that things like Internet Explorer 7 won't install on anything other than a geniune Windows operating system.  Wouldn't be a problem for open source however, as the open source community would provide its own updates, as well as necessary software for web browsing, office, multimedia, etc.  (And they would probably work better than the M$ equivalents.  And for ReactOS, the whole idea is that our PC versions of Poser, DAZ|Studio, Bryce, etc, would work just like before.  As of right now, Wine may or may not allow those programs to be run under Linux)

DRM is total crap.  Apparently the RIAA and MPAA are too stubborn or stupid to figure out why someone should want to pay money for something that has been crippled when they can get the same thing for free with no restrictions on use and often of higher quality.  (And as far as I'm concerned the recording industry has no business saying that the latter is illegal, when they are engaging in activities that if not outright illegal, damn well should be - i.e., the Sony XCP Rootkit fiasco).

It isn't even about piracy anymore - it's about power and control.  If these people get their way they will effectively be able to drag society back to the days before the printing press, when the powers that be were able to control what was said and heard.