Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards

Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:41PM (#29103130)

"I'd argue that serial number checks would be the company protecting it's property"

No, its the company compelling me to protect it's property at my expense using my CPU and my Internet connection without compensation or due process.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by perth on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:14AM (#29104014)

I mean doesn't Microsoft already phone home a unique GUID identifying the hardware in your computer that it ties Windows key activations to? And since Microsoft owns Canonical, probably in Ubuntu as well (on the defaults)?

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by worthless-trash on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:14AM (#29104262)

Citation on how MS owns ubuntu ?

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by TomGullen on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:37AM (#29104108)

And what compensation would you think would be fair exactly?

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