TorrentFreak reports that other private trackers are considering copying iTS' move. Working to prevent this is an entirely reasonable thing for the company to do, and partnering with MarkMonitor doesn't mean that Microsoft wants to inspect everyone's hard disk. Microsoft's brands are routinely used to defraud people, with tech support scams, phishing, and counterfeit install media all being rampant. iTS describes MarkMonitor as an 'anti-piracy company.' That's true in a sense-the company helps brands stop things like the sale of counterfeits, domain squatting, and fraud-but it seems that Microsoft's involvement with MarkMonitor is of a kind that even dedicated pirates shouldn't find too offensive. This particularly alarms iTS because of an existing Microsoft partnership with a company called MarkMonitor. Microsoft reserves the right to share some data collected by Windows 10 with certain third parties. But sending the contents of disks to Microsoft? There are no signs that Windows 10 does anything of the sort. Windows 10, like every modern mainstream operating system, does connect to numerous cloud services, and there are certainly privacy implications to these. To the best of our knowledge, this is nonsense. The reason? 'Amongst other things Windows 10 sends the contents of your local disks directly to one of their servers.' The latest fallout is something that Microsoft probably won't be too upset about: some private BitTorrent trackers that trade entirely in pirated media appear to have banned the use of Microsoft's operating system.Īccording to a post on Reddit, the iTS tracker has banned the use of Windows 10. Fears surrounding Windows 10's online connectivity and data collection are continuing to run rampant.

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