WindowsUpdate V5 - No Update With Legal Key?

WindowsUpdate V5 will not allow pirate key of Windows XP to update their machine!

http://www.materiel.be/news/12004/winupdatev5.jpg

For all of you who cannot read french, it's written "Impossible to verifed your product key"

I read some where this morning that despite SP2 not being out yet for XP there is already a crack for its anti piracy measures.

I have certainly heard that their are cracks for the beta release, I guess we will have to wait to see if the real version is the same. From what I heard, they were only trying to block about 20 of the most common pirate keys, and there must be dozens of keys out there.

Seems like a pretty half-hearted effort to me.

It's a good effort on microsoft's part but as always someone has found a way to get around the antipiracy method. I know that microsoft will continue to come up with new ideas to test out, and as always it will be cracked within a matter of days or weeks.

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Originally posted here by SDK
WindowsUpdate V5 will not allow pirate key of Windows XP to update their machine!

http://www.antionline.com/

For all of you who cannot read french, it's written "Impossible to verifed your product key"

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I'm happy about this, although I've heard there are ways around it. The more people that use *legal* versions of Windows the cheaper (theoretically... but then again this is Micro$oft...) they *should* get.

Regards,
Xierox

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Originally posted here by DeadAddict
It's a good effort on microsoft's part but as always someone has found a way to get around the antipiracy method. I know that microsoft will continue to come up with new ideas to test out, and as always it will be cracked within a matter of days or weeks.

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Cracked by pissed off microsoft employes.

Or greedy ones who want some spending money...

I do not doubt that for a moment !mitationRust they are most likely the driving force behind it all. of course there isn't much microsoft can do about it.