Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users

[dlevere]

Posted by timothy

An anonymous reader writes:

Some smaller pirate sites have become concerned about Windows 10 system phoning home too many hints regarding that the users are accessing their site. Therefore, the pirate administrators have started blocking Windows 10 users from accessing the BitTorrent trackers that the sites host.

The first ones to hit the alarm button were iTS, which have posted a statement and started redirecting Windows 10 users to a YouTube video called Windows 10 Is A Tool To Spy On Everything You Do.

Additionally, according to TorrentFreak, two other similar dark web torrent trackers are also considering following suit.

"As we all know, Microsoft recently released Windows 10. You as a member should know, that we as a site are thinking about banning the OS from FSC," said one of the FSC staff. Likewise, in a message to their users, a BB admin said something similar: "We have also found [Windows 10] will be gathering information on users' P2P use to be shared with anti piracy group."

[bungholio]

Think the same was done for Windows 7 on release. Can't remember if anything was done about it though, maybe a few specific updates or whatever were uninstalled, I don't remember. Seems like I see this somewhere every new version of Windows.