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Fake Copies of Windows to Get 'Exploding Dye'

TameasDust	Date: April 26, 2006 @ 11:51 PM The software giant is using the "Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications" tool -- a virtual equivalent of the exploding dye that banks use to mark stolen currency and thus deter theft. WGA automatically checks for genuine copies when customers use Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows and Microsoft Download Center. If the tool finds the OS is counterfeit, users see pop-up dialog boxes with messages stating they're not running a legal copy of Windows. The WGA program not only helps Microsoft combat software piracy, but also informs users who may not be aware they paid for non-genuine software. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50194.html
GeneHilbert	Date: April 26, 2006 @ 11:56 PM That should go swimmingly....
BIR	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 5:11 PM I just did that last week. My win-xp disk is the kind you can install more than once
ChillinBuzz	Date: May 2, 2006 @ 7:57 PM no comment i worked in a place where we had so many copies of XP left around... well...
victorsskull	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 12:46 AM
shadowself	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 12:49 AM In the words of the wonderfully sweet Borty, "it didn't worked". One (heh) of my machines has a non-legit copy, and it keeps happily updating.
ChillinBuzz	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 9:24 AM mine are legit i just wasnt paying that kind of money for some bloated spyware-ridden overhyped crudely constructed bug-beaten overtested and underworked lousy stinking part-stolen badly coded shit!
shadowself	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 11:32 AM You can't avoid it, Chillin... Internet Explorer is included.
Alexsy	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 11:16 PM pop-up dialog boxes! dear god, say it isn't so! not the dreaded ... pop-up dialog boxes of DOOOOOOOOOOM ... i'm a lot more worried about blue death-screens than some goddamn pop-up dialog box.
TameasDust	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 3:33 PM the fun thing is .. your not supposed to be able to close the popup boxes of doom ...
advil	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 7:47 PM I have faith in the ever resilient world of piracy. This may be a minor inconvenience at most and the best part is, its almost guaranteed a Microsoft employee will be involved.
AthenasGhost	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 5:45 PM Windows should be free.
Alexsy	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 10:28 PM god bless microsoft and their unblockable noncloseable popup notification thingy-ma-jiggers. if only they spent this much time developing stable, functioning software ...
CodieMorgan	Date: May 8, 2006 @ 5:26 PM pah.... there are ways to get around it.....

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