Is it known yet if the keylogger from one of the earlier builds has been removed?
From what I understand it's not a keylogger in the malware sense at all, but I don't have the technical knowledge to back that up, I just googled 'Windows 10 keylogger'. And that whatever it is is locked on in insider builds for feedback to microsoft as is the point of test builds. It can be turned off in the general release version. Funnily enough I just checked the settings in the 10240 'RTM' insider build I'm running and under the privacy>feedback settings it says 'The Windows Insider Programme manages this option' so the insider build IS different.
What's the latest on the pirate copies? Asking for a friend....
Think it's a wait-and-see situation. There's stuff about like kmspico but if I can find that easily then I'm sure microsoft are aware of it and I'm guessing that mandatory updates are going to make piracy a pain the arse over and over again in a constant game of cat and mouse, never mind the malware versions of hacks that you may accidentally download. If you, sorry, your friend wants to risk breaking your OS every time it updates itself, it
may be better to just legitimately run an insider build on the slow ring. Who knows.
EDIT: Also it depends what you're actually asking, whether 10 can be pirated or whether pirated 7/8.1 can be upgraded?
Anyway, back to W10 itself, it looks like the expected problems with mandatory updates have started.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/07/25/windows-10-automatic-update-problems/Basically, people with nvidia GPUs are finding that the nvidia software and windows update are competing to auto-install their own 'latest driver' (which aren't the same version numbers) in an endless loop and breaking multimonitor and SLI setups. Also for SLI, only one driver install is required for both cards but Windows is installing two instances and causing problems. Microsoft should be deferring to the manufacturers on this one, they know their own products best. At least make driver updates through windows update optional and allow rolling back to earlier versions as people often need to do when a new driver breaks something. I'll certainly be waiting until this sort of shit is fixed before I upgrade my main PCs.