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Microsoft Windows XP SP1 to be tough on Warez!

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And one last thing readers who're no better than they should be should bear in mind about SP1. Microsoft is going to engineer it so that it won't work on a widely-warezed activation key, which as we recall escaped form a large friend of Microsoft beginning with D. It would appear that Microsoft does not intend application of SP1 to vape systems installed using that key, but simply to freeze them where they are, and to block their ability to use Windows Update. Microsoft has used service packs to disable installations it deemed pirated in the past, and we'd guess it's decided not to do this because it might hit legit systems by mistake, or generate adverse publicity from innocent victims.

Disabling Windows Update access does however up the ante, as it'll at least make it more difficult for readers who're no better than they should be to get hold of updates and patches. Long term it is also logical for Microsoft to try to make this impossible, not just difficult, so it's an area worth watching. And lastly, Microsoft is no doubt aware of considerably more compromised keys for XP than just the one, so we'd actually be surprised if it was just the D one that got nuked in SP1.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25423.html
 
Originally posted by: murphy55d
Interesting.

What is this "D" thing? I don't get it.
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I also think this is interesting, but like every other attempt, will probably be defeated by someone.

And I also don't get the "D" thing. Anyone care to explain?

 
This is no surprise, is it? Everybody was expecting them to do something, at least with regard to the cd key used by almost every pirated copy of XP.
 
Originally posted by: Millenium
Dell
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Ahhh. I thought that it some famous former MS employee or something.

Originally posted by: exp
Wow, sounds scary. Will it be this tough?
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LOL. Just draw a black ring around the outside of one of your hard disk platters, and you will defeat Microsoft's anti-warez scheme.

🙂😉
 
heh..i was trying to figure out that D thing as well, and wouldn't have read it to be Dell. I would have guessed it to be a MS leak.

Thanks

-=bmacd=-
 
Just draw a black ring around the outside of one of your hard disk platters, and you will defeat Microsoft's anti-warez scheme.
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ROTFL! 😀

That's the funniest thing I've heard today! 🙂

 
Originally posted by: sward666
I'm not sure I understand this Dell thing.
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Most pirated copies of XP Corporate are using the same cd key, which apparently came from Dell.
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IIRC, they had a 3-D picture of a laptop on their website that you could rotate around. A stupid, but "gee whiz" kind of feature.
Except you could actually rotate the picture to the bottom of the laptop where there was an XP license sticker with a valid code.
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IIRC, they had a 3-D picture of a laptop on their website that you could rotate around. A stupid, but "gee whiz" kind of feature.
Except you could actually rotate the picture to the bottom of the laptop where there was an XP license sticker with a valid code.
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Is that so? Oh man, that's classic.
 
So basically this only affects those that didn't pay for XP to begin. That is unless you had a legit copy from dell that used that CD key in question.
 
Originally posted by: gopunk
oh well, sucks to be someone using a non-legit version 😛

<-- has legit version and 2 spare ones at that 😀
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steals the two spare legit versions. 😉

 
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