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Windows Key Leak Threatens Mass Piracy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the red-hat-is-looking-for-their-key-too dept.

lou_soyur writes "A key code for installing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet. Rampant piracy sure to follow fears Microsoft, so it's a safe assumption that their lawyers "would scour the Internet looking for the leaked code". The joy of closed source security at work."

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  1. WHAT?!?!?! by davebarz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Someone pirating a WINDOWS OS!?!?!?! But that's crazy.

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  2. Re:I didn't pay for my copy of Windows. by Tolkien · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    beh, I hope this wasn't meant to be funny.

    Credit card fraud is lame.

    1) If you want a $500 OS, don't buy it, download/get a copy of it (that's what I do, heh). This method, although highly illegal, nobody cares about because it's so rampant and unstoppable that the worst the government can do is fine you (and if the sum value of the pirated software is enough, jail you or put you on probation for a short period of time).

    2) Credit card fraud - ASSUMING you'll get caught (it's not that hard to find out who's doing it), insta-jail and nice fat fine + I'm guessing reimbursement of the totality of the spent money with the card in question, not to mention, the money spent isn't "free" but belongs to somebody else, so you're effectively screwing somebody out of their own hard-earned money.

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  3. Re:Missing Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually there is another one.

    K4RBR-F3K42-M9RXG-48TPR-H6BPB

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