try passing that one by microsoft...you can no longer get windows updates with cracked versions of xp.
Turn on automatic update and you don't even need to use the_Jinxs workround.

AFAIK it has always been legal to reverse engineer for compatibility issues. Much has been posted all over the net about the DMCA.

However It must come to some sort of head when you have absolute crap like this happening:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...id=215&tid=193