Jones, Pamela. “Microsoft sued over WGA.” Groklaw, June 29, 2006.

Summary: A Windows user, Brian Johnson of Los Angeles, is bringing a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for installing the Windows Genuine Advantage spyware on his personal computer without asking permission. His filing raises a number of complaints, including a claim that the new spyware can infringe on one's fair-use right to move a purchased copy of Windows XP from one machine to another.

As for relief, among other things like damages, they are asking for injunctive and equitable relief, “prohibiting Defendant from engaging in the acts of unfair competition or deceptive trade practices alleged” and requiring Microsoft to delete “all data surreptitiously or otherwise collected” and “ordering data, funds or other assets obtained by unlawful means as alleged above to be impounded, or a trust imposed, to avoid dissipation, fraudulent transfers, and/or concealment of such assets by Defendant.”