Hmmmmm,

"Pirate Bay" is in Denmark.................the Danish cops closed them down the other day at the request of the MPAA.

Eyecre8 Yes, that is a familiar story and what really makes my blood boil. If you replace a motherboard MS consider that to be a new machine, unless it is to repair a defective one (you don't need any great skills with an engineering hammer to make that true ) This applies to OEM licences.

In the past I would just ring them up and get a number to reactivate the box..............I don't trust them to write competent DRM software so I avoid it where possible.

There are a number of obvious flaws with the WGA software:

1. It will report a dead CMOS battery as pirate software.
2. It will report a deliberate system date setting more than 24Hrs out, as pirate software.
3. It will lock a system based on the number of reauthentications AND reactivations...........even if it is a commercial version!
4. The WGA program cannot differentiate hardware replacements that are permitted, and those which are questionable. Even though they are stated in MS's EULA

All in all, not something that would give me confidence to rush out and buy Vista.