Warez Windows XP users

[Deviant]

Sounds like Microsoft have a surprise with SP1, that may stop you (at least for a while) by requiring a new key if you install SP1.

Story here:
http://www.betaone.net/archives/00000060.php

[Antallica]

This has been discused here before hasn't it?

(Oh yeah, I dunno if the mods will take much joy to this thread ;))

[Grrr!!]

It has been discused before.

I was just wondering, does it actually send your CDKEY to a database and check for duplicates, or only iliminate CDKEYs which people have put accross the internet?

[SecretSquirrel]

[sigh] KeyGen?

There is always a way around MS and other companies anti-hacks.

Someone sits out there on their computers doing just that all day, every day...

Eventually I think the software companies are just going to make their own version of Echelon and listen for warez kiddies conversations, track them down, and fvck them up...

I hope they get it on video, it would be worth a laugh.

[varkk]

oh great I can just see it now, I'll be sitting at home mindlessly channel surfing late at night, and then the new 'RealTV' show comes on...'When good War3z goes bad'

but anyway, I think all that sp1 does is check your code against a list of compromised ones which MS already knows about

[GooGlo]

Its a temp measure at best, Maybe a week before someone out there finds a way around it. It wont stop the casual piracy among friends tho, which i think is the biggest problem.

[Grrr!!]

To be honest, "casual" piracy amoung friends is probably the BIGGEST and WORST form of piracy. One upon a time it was likely to be recommended to a friend, and today you just give a friend a copy.

[varkk]

Anyway all users of the bad cdkeys would have to do is wait until some 1337 Ha><0R releases a 'patched' version of the SP and install that, and hope that it doesn't turn their computer into a quivering mound of jello.


Although I am sure you can trust a warez hacker to not install trojans/backdoors etc.......

[NTBlowz]

There is a work around on www.nvmax.com ,under windoze section of the forum;)

[Grrr!!]

Typical, the workaround before the patch :D.