Quote: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q328874
Anyone want to comment on that?

that is good for the pirates out there

Hopefully everyone will not get the impression that I posted that to aid in pirating XP/XPSP1... Not my intention at all.

Quote:Hopefully everyone will not get the impression that I posted that to aid in pirating XP/XPSP1... Not my intention at all.

i know you are no pirate
so i can back ya up on that

obviously this is a problem that is caused by pirates
it is just funny that the solution may help some of the pirates

Yeah, I had a genuine laugh, after the legnths Microsoft went to further restrict piracy with SP1, then they released that KB article. I guess it's intent was for companies of legitimate volume licencing who had their key 'leaked'.

Quote:Yeah, I had a genuine laugh, after the legnths Microsoft went to further restrict piracy with SP1, then they released that KB article. I guess it's intent was for companies of legitimate volume licencing who had their key 'leaked'.

yes that is the irony here
pirates cause a problem
microsoft fights back but inadvertantly disables some licenses of some very high paying clients
then they release a fix
which helps the pirates

anti piracy hurts consumers and pirates