A computer user, Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, is suing Microsoft Corp. over the company’s Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool, alleging that it violates laws against spyware.計算機用戶，洛杉磯居民布賴恩約翰遜，是起訴微軟公司超過該公司的Windows Genuine Advantage反盜版工具，指它違反了法律對間諜軟件。

The suit was filed this week in US District Court in Seattle (該訴訟是在本星期在美國聯邦地方法院在西雅圖（ court documents法庭文件 ). ） 。 It seeks class-action status for claims that Microsoft didn’t adequately disclose details of the tool when it was delivered to PC users through the company’s Automatic Update system.它的目的是集體訴訟地位，聲稱微軟沒有充分披露詳細的工具，當它被送到PC用戶通過該公司的自動更新系統。

Windows Genuine Advantage is designed to check the validity of a computer user’s copy of the operating system. Windows Genuine Advantage的目的是要檢查的有效性，計算機用戶的副本的作業系統。 Almost immediately after its release people幾乎立即釋放後，其人 cracked the WGA code to bypass its check破獲WGA的代碼，繞過檢查 . 。 The tool became subject of heightened controversy earlier this month, after PC users began noticing that it was making daily contact with Microsoft’s servers, sending unspecified uinformation without their knowledge and without any disclosure in its license terms, even if their software was valid.該工具成為受到高度爭議，本月初，後PC用戶開始注意到，這是使日常接觸與微軟的服務器，發送指定uinformation沒有他們的知識和沒有任何披露，在其許可條款，即使他們的軟件是有效的。 Recently I mentioned about a tool to最近，我提到的一個工具 remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notification tool刪除Windows Genuine Advantage Notification工具 from your computer.從您的計算機。

Microsoft issued a software update this week to address some of the concerns computer users had raised about the微軟發布了軟件更新，這週來解決的一些關切的電腦用戶曾提出有關 Windows Genuine Advantage notification Windows Genuine Advantage的通知 tool.工具。 Along with comes rumors that Microsoft plans to disable copies of Windows operating system the WGA tool deems as pirated.隨著來傳言說，微軟計劃以禁用的副本的Windows作業系統的WGA工具，認為由於盜版軟件。

“Microsoft effectively installed the WGA software on consumers’ systems without providing consumers any opportunity to make an informed choice about that software,” the suit alleges. “微軟有效地安裝了WGA軟件對消費者的系統中沒有向消費者提供任何的機會，作出明智的選擇有關的軟件， ”訴訟指控。

The lead lawyer representing Johnson in the suit against Microsoft, Scott Kamber of Kamber & Associates LLC in New York, was co-lead counsel for consumers in the lawsuit over Sony Corp.’s surreptitious placement of copy-protection “rootkit” software on PCs, through music CDs.帶頭的律師代表約翰遜在訴狀中對微軟，斯科特kamber的kamber ＆ Associates LLC公司在紐約，是合作的首席律師為消費者在訴訟超過索尼Corp 。旗下的偷偷摸摸的位置拷貝保護“的rootkit ”軟件在PC上通過音樂光碟。

The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, makes claims under statutes including the Washington Consumer Protection Act and California Unfair Competition Law, in addition to anti-spyware statutes in both states.訴訟，目的不詳的損害賠償，聲稱根據章程，包括華盛頓消費者保護法和加州不正當競爭法中，除了反間諜軟件的法規在這兩個州。 link鏈接