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A comment on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si. Parent comment

Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by munk-a on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:52PM (#25862520)
I'm a bit doubtful of this. It's possible but Microsoft uses Live for both business and gaming, but they've only had a track record of forcing Live account adoption onto users in the gaming sphere. It may happen, sure, but I don't think it's likely.

That all said I didn't think it was likely that Minecraft would switch over to using Live accounts since Minecraft is so famously cross platform and Live accounts have struggled with that in the past.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by Macha on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:49PM (#25867722)
They're also boiling the frog on Windows local accounts at the moment. It's no longer possible to set up a new install of Home, or Windows 10 (any SKU) in S mode with a local account without either disconnecting internet during installation or going back and converting to a local account after
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