Piracy now the cheapest LEGAL way to get Windows....

[dolphinius_rex]

According to this news article, purchasing a pirated copy of Windows can now lead you to getting a full authentic version of windows either for half price, or even free!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050726/ap_ ... oft_piracy

Of course you have to snitch...

[aviationwiz]

One more reason for people to use Linux or Mac OS...and if Apple's laptop options didn't seriously suck, I would have gotten an Apple laptop too. When will this big brother crap end?

I can't wait to hear reports of M$ mistakenly identifying legit copies as pirated copies.

[Boba_Fett]

One more reason for people to use Linux or Mac OS...and if Apple's laptop options didn't seriously suck, I would have gotten an Apple laptop too. When will this big brother crap end?

I can't wait to hear reports of M$ mistakenly identifying legit copies as pirated copies.

*Playing the Devil's Advocate for a sec*

What do you expect MS to do? Their OS has been absolutely raped by pirates since before XP was officially released. Pretty much EVERYONE who knows stupid simple stuff like how to rip music off a disk knows how to get ahold of a illegal corp edition of Win XP Professional. I'm honestly surprised they didn't do this earlier. Oh well, I'm sure someone will find a way to make illegal redists of all the patches MS will block...

[hoxlund]

ughh, tried it myself

ohh no, now i have to take 23 minutes out of my life and install a newer cracked windows

or better yet use autopatcher, no need to validate windows:

http://www.autopatcher.com/

[Boba_Fett]

ughh, tried it myself

ohh no, now i have to take 23 minutes out of my life and install a newer cracked windows

or better yet use autopatcher, no need to validate windows:

http://www.autopatcher.com/

Sweetness! Many thanx for the link... being stuck with 56k means I never really update. Now I can download updates at college and come home and update the many machines around here

[hoxlund]

your welcome

of course microsoft might be looking into sites like this to get them to stop

so there validation will be more effective

[aviationwiz]

Cracked: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/07/28/1655 ... 72&tid=218

[hoxlund]

anyone get this to work? ive been foolin with my windows key

im kinda confused by what exactly you paste in the address bar

EDIT: oops nvm was looking at this to hard, just paste and hit enter when your at the custom/express screen, then click on express/custom again

very nice