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Windows XP Cracked Already
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Found some info at the inquirer about Windows XP already being pirated. And quite easily it looks. Here is a pic from Tapai Times showing pirated Windows XP copies being sold for roughly a $1.30 in US currency.
Posted by: Kdr Kane
Many of us knew this would happen. What Microsoft did by implementing Windows Product Activation was inconvenience the the home user.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Yep. It amazes me how simple logic and reason evades many companies who try to curb software piracy.
Posted by: Chako
Remember the days of the humble code wheel? You would buy a game, get home all excited, open the package and pull out all the goodies, only to find this cute little paper code wheel with the holes punched in them so that you could spend countless hours playing with the darn thing trying to figure out how to work it. You could not advance in the game until you got all 9 wheels aligned perfectly so that you could read all 9 digits or letters in the correct sequence (and you just knew that the center hole would be punched off center). It got so bad that when I found these gems in the bottom of game boxes....I would literally weep.
Do I have a point in all of this other then my hatred of the humble code wheel of yor....MS is much like those game companies. The code wheel was a preferred torture device because most people didn't have an easy way of reproducing them...photocopiers were scarce in those days (big and expensive...the average home user didn't have access to them). But software pirates would lovingly and painstakingly reproduce them by hand. Which brings me to my original point...anti theft devices and schemes are only there to inconvenience the law abiding honest majority.
Now you know why I think Xerox saved the game industry. 
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