Vista gold but cracked already
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Can we stop piracy in any way ? I personally dont think so.
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coolestCoder
coolestCoder wrote:
Can we stop piracy in any way? I personally dont think so.
Of course you can make a program hard to crack, e.g. by providing thousands of distributed checks instead of one central 'key'. Certainly MS knows that. BTW, strangely enough Linux seems to have absolutely no problem with 'piracy' ... ;P
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Vista gold but cracked already[^] Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 only just went gold, and their anti-piracy measures have already been cracked...It comes supplied with a product key, allowing users to install the operating system on their computers unhindered
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Windows wouldn't have the market penetration it does without piracy.. It's a question of how much they can get people to pay, and how many will pay up.
Ryan
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I didn't know about either hack.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
You can monitor it on the crack groups on UseNet. I used to monitor all those groups, the 'hacking' groups (I'm a hacker, they're vandals!), and their various underground boards all the time. If you do security work it's nice to have a clue at what you'll be seeing shortly if not immediately. I'm surprised that the crack wasn't posted before it went Gold. That's happened on more than one occasion, actually that's the more usual case by a long mile and not just to MS.
-Bri "The most deadly words for an engineer. 'I have an idea.'"
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Windows wouldn't have the market penetration it does without piracy.. It's a question of how much they can get people to pay, and how many will pay up.
Ryan
"Michael Moore and Mel Gibson are the same person, except for a few sit-ups. Moore thought his cheesy political blooper reel was going to tell people how to vote. Mel thought that his little gay SM movie about his imaginary friend was going to help him get to heaven." - Penn Jillette
And you can bet your best computer that they have internal econometric studies which estimate overall sales by pricepoint. If it were my firm, I sure would or even conduct the studies myself.
-Bri "The most deadly words for an engineer. 'I have an idea.'"
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coolestCoder wrote:
Can we stop piracy in any way? I personally dont think so.
Of course you can make a program hard to crack, e.g. by providing thousands of distributed checks instead of one central 'key'. Certainly MS knows that. BTW, strangely enough Linux seems to have absolutely no problem with 'piracy' ... ;P
Sceptic Mole wrote:
BTW, strangely enough Linux seems to have absolutely no problem with 'piracy' ...
Who'd want to. I recently tried Linux and eventually put back Windows XP on the machine. Linux is getting there, and I will try it again sometime, but at present I don't think it is good enough to be a real contender.
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Vista gold but cracked already[^] Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 only just went gold, and their anti-piracy measures have already been cracked...It comes supplied with a product key, allowing users to install the operating system on their computers unhindered
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
But can you hear all the crying out there when a Windows Update in the future locks their computer down to nothing more than a web browser for one hour per day, after Microsoft blocks the patches and sends out the update to their machines. If they want their systems to stay up-to-date with the latest updates and patches, they probably will have to buy it. Sure hope we do not read in the news that some large corporation suddenly lost all their computers to a virus and find out later, it as an MS update ;)
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But can you hear all the crying out there when a Windows Update in the future locks their computer down to nothing more than a web browser for one hour per day, after Microsoft blocks the patches and sends out the update to their machines. If they want their systems to stay up-to-date with the latest updates and patches, they probably will have to buy it. Sure hope we do not read in the news that some large corporation suddenly lost all their computers to a virus and find out later, it as an MS update ;)
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Rocky Moore wrote:
But can you hear all the crying out there when a Windows Update in the future locks their computer down to nothing more than a web browser for one hour per day, after Microsoft blocks the patches and sends out the update to their machines.
That only happens to legitimate users :mad:
Todd Smith
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Vista gold but cracked already[^] Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 only just went gold, and their anti-piracy measures have already been cracked...It comes supplied with a product key, allowing users to install the operating system on their computers unhindered
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
The software giant has taken similar measures previously with Windows XP, preventing users that it had identified as using pirated versions from downloading certain updates such as Internet Explorer 7. There you go EU - that isn't so hard to do, is it?
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I didn't know about either hack.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
I didn't know about either hack.
That's Paul-speak for "I don't do cracks and warez, I only use legal software". Being a nice kid, he had to say that indirectly ;P
Regards, Nish
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Sceptic Mole wrote:
BTW, strangely enough Linux seems to have absolutely no problem with 'piracy' ...
Who'd want to. I recently tried Linux and eventually put back Windows XP on the machine. Linux is getting there, and I will try it again sometime, but at present I don't think it is good enough to be a real contender.
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The very nature of Linux will prevent it from being completely usable. (And I hate having to say that.)
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Paul Watson wrote:
I didn't know about either hack.
That's Paul-speak for "I don't do cracks and warez, I only use legal software". Being a nice kid, he had to say that indirectly ;P
Regards, Nish
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regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Vista gold but cracked already[^] Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 only just went gold, and their anti-piracy measures have already been cracked...It comes supplied with a product key, allowing users to install the operating system on their computers unhindered
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Just goes to show that on a fundamental level you can't both give someone access to something and keep it secret from them.
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Paul Watson wrote:
I didn't know about either hack.
That's Paul-speak for "I don't do cracks and warez, I only use legal software". Being a nice kid, he had to say that indirectly ;P
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*) -
Rocky Moore wrote:
But can you hear all the crying out there when a Windows Update in the future locks their computer down to nothing more than a web browser for one hour per day, after Microsoft blocks the patches and sends out the update to their machines.
That only happens to legitimate users :mad:
Todd Smith
:)
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