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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."

3 of 597 comments (clear)

  1. Classic Microsoft Tactic -- Give it away! by ErnstKompressor · · Score: 0, Troll

    By distributing "leaked keys" MS assures itself of easy market penetration -- like when they gave their browser away...

    Get enough people using the software, and you can call it a de facto standard...

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  2. Re:Thanks Lou !!!!!!!! by lou_soyur · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well... Bro..

    Everyone knows your a wanker.

    But thats only cause Pa keeps the sheep to himself.

  3. Win XP Activation by null-sRc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Personally, MS's recent activation policies piss me off...

    I have 3 licensed copies of windows xp... They all worked pretty much fine, UNTIL my network got a funny virus (thank you family members who don't understand that .jpg.exe is not a picture)..

    so hence,
    i reformatted
    attempted to reinstall xp

    yet every single one of my 3 PAID FOR keys claimed that "THIS KEY HAS BEEN USED ALREADY BLAH BLAH BLAH"

    WTF??!!!

    screw you MS!!

    i realize you can call ms regarding this, but i'm not gonna sit on the phone calling long distance, for 30 mins per key i need working every time i reformat...

    so what do i do?

    download a pirated winxp sp1 iso for the meanwhile..

    and download gentoo linux, install it on an extra pc, and start getting ready to switch.

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    -judging another only defines yourself