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Activating Vista Enterprise Using a Spoofed Server
Ruvim writes "It has been mentioned in previous Slashdot discussions as possibility, and now it became a reality: Information Week reports that a spoofed server has been released that can be used to activate Microsoft's Vista Enterprise versions. It is being made available on several pirate Web sites and spoofs a Key Management Service server, used to activate a large number of copies of Windows Vista in enterprise environments." From the article: "Vista is the first version of Windows that Microsoft requires volume license customers to activate. Besides KMS, the Redmond, Wash. developer also offers Multiple Activation Key, which resembles the retail version's activation process. PCs activated using KMS must reactivate at least once every six months. The MelindaGates hack uses a VMware image of a KMS server to activate -- and keep activated -- a pirated edition of Windows Vista Business. 'Looks like Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 is a big bust,' wrote a user identified as 'clank' on the PirateBay Web site Friday. "
Leopard will require activation. Now sounds like a good time to start weaning yourself off of proprietary software. It's going to get worse (TPM) before it gets better (copyright abolished).
My other car is first.
No, they wouldn't. They would be whining and crying about how "evil" Microsoft was and how GPL copyright protects the code from "theft." You see, copyright and ownership rights are suddenly important when it's the Linux community, but meaningless when it's a company whose software they don't like, which should normally be the end of it but is instead a religious crusade against an operating system. An operating system apparently popular enough to warrant a crack.
Doesn't matter to me either way. I can't stand Windows or Linux.
"Sufferin' succotash."